Can I get an ISO-8859-1 system back

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> I upgraded from 9.? to 10.2. I used a custom kernel to avoid vt and raster 
> fonts in sc. I updated as many ports as would build.
> 
> Now I cannot find an editor that will display my files with accent 
> characters correctly. I know the files are still iso-8859-1 because they 
> are the same size they were and when I cat them, they have the right 
> characters in them. This also shows that my term (cons25l1) can display 
> the characters correctly. But joe, joe2, ee, and pico-alpine seem to 
> convert them to some kind of UTF mess, with two bytes which display as grey 
> blocks.
> 
> I have tried using LC_ALL and LANG as en_US.iso-8859-1 in .login_conf, and 
> unsetting them, I have tried several screen maps.

I use "setenv LC_CTYPE no_NO.ISO8859-1" in my .cshrc (yes, I still use
tcsh), and don't set LANG at all, on my 10.2 systems. This works like a
charm - I can display my Norwegian characters (æøå) both on the command
line and for instance in vi etc. No UTF here.

Not at all sure this works with VGA characters though - I mainly use
remote login via ssh.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no