LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 with xterm - still French accented characters are corrupted

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bris.ac.uk> [2013-07-17 13:14 +0100]:

> I tried, in tcsh: 
> 
> % setenv |grep FR
> XTERM_LOCALE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1
> LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO8859-1
> 
> but the accented French characters are corrupted, e.g. in
> /usr/ports/french/aster/pkg-descr.
> 
> I built xterm with 
> 
> % make -C /usr/ports/x11/xterm showconfig
> ===> The following configuration options are available for xterm-296:
>      256COLOR=on: Enable 256-color support
>      DABBREV=off: Enable support for dabbrev-expand
>      DECTERM=off: Enable DECterm Locator support
>      GNOME=off: GNOME desktop environment support
>      LUIT=on: Use LUIT for locale convertion from/to UTF-8
>      PCRE=on: Use Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
>      SIXEL=on: Enable Sixel graphics support
>      WCHAR=on: Enable wide-character support
> ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
> 
> I usually can read russian with either
> ru_RU.KOI8-R or en_US.UTF-8 in xterm, so I think
> the xterm is set up correctly to view 8-bit characters.

Doesn't fr_FR.UTF8 work?

Elimar
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