Martin Würtele wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:26:41PM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > > I just installed Debian 2.2, using a spanish keyboard (selected in the > > installation. > > > > If I type some spanish character, like ñ or á, in Netscape or vi, it > > displays just fine. However, if I type it in console mode, or in a > > terminal inside X, it just beeps and doesn't show anything. Where could > > my problem be? > > make shure, in /etc/inputrc you have the line > set convert-meta off > > (at least this helped for germen characters in the console) > > if less complains about a binary file when viewing a file with spanish > characters try setting > LC_CTYPE=es_ES ISO-8859-1 > or whatever codepage you use. > > hth martin
Thanks. It worked. However, even when less doesn't complain, it also doesn't show the spanish characters, just something like and invered <F3> or <ED>, etc. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
