using tcsh with 8bit characters

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2003-05-01 16:48, JacobRhoden <jrhoden at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> When you convert your keyboard layout to a different language, many
> programs seem to accept special characters, but at the commandline
> (tcsh) they never work, does anyone know how to fix this? (i searched
> on google but all the results were in another language :/

It's usually a matter of correctly setting your locale in the
environment.  For instance, writing Greek characters at the tcsh
prompt works fine here:

: $ env | grep LC
: LC_COLLATE=el_GR.ISO8859-7
: LC_CTYPE=el_GR.ISO8859-7
: $ env | grep LANG
: LANG=C
: $ tcsh
: giorgos at gothmog[16:15pm]/home/giorgos> [type some greek text; hit ^C]
: giorgos at gothmog[16:15pm]/home/giorgos> exit

- Giorgos