[_nmk]

Hi all,

I am trying to get the terminal towork with international characters - like cyrillic and german äöü. So far no luck- neither reading them nor writing them is possible. Sheesh, talk about unicode support.

Any ideas?

Many thanks in advance,
nmk

[danengel]

I use Latin-1 (aka ISO-8859-1) in the Terminal, because äöü is all I need, and it works well. I gave Unicode a quick try, but didn't get it to run properly, i.e. from the keyboard into bash or emacs, and out via cat and less.

My Latin-1 setup is as follows. In ~/.bashrc I have

export LESSCHARSET=latin1
export CHARSET=latin1

In ~/.emacs:

(set-terminal-coding-system 'iso-latin-1)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'iso-latin-1)

The Terminal "Window Settings", Display, is set to Latin-1 too.

Seems like the UNIX world never really gets above anything else than 7-bit ASCII. I would *love* to see all tools use Unicode, but that won't probably happen anytime soon.

[arekkusu]

It does not work by default (why?!) but you can tweak things to work with unicode:

Panther Terminal (bash) settings:
Emulation: escape non-ASCII chars
Display: charset encoding: UTF-8

.bash_profile:
LESS="-ERmX~"; export LESS
LESSCHARSET="utf-8"; export LESSCHARSET
PAGER="less -ERmX~"; export PAGER

.bashrc:
alias ls='ls -FGv'


with these settings, I can see Unicode chars correctly in file lists, man pages, .strings files, etc. Shell tab expansion still replaces unicode with escape sequences though.