command line applications don't handle accented characters well

Paul Tomblin ptomblin at gmail.com
Wed Nov 24 17:37:35 UTC 2004


Before "upgrading" to Fedora Core 3 from RedHat 9,
termcap/terminfo/ncurses applications handled accented characters
well.  But now, they're a mish-mash.

For instance, somebody sent me an email with a word in the subject
line with some sort of accent.  I'm ssh'ed in from a RedHat 9 machine.
 In mutt's list of messages, the word looks like
"Laoc<i-umlaut><upside down question mark><1/2>n".  In the mutt
message display, it looks like "Laoco\366n".  In less it looks like
"Laoco<o-umlaut>n" (which is actually correct).  In vim, it looks like
"Laoco<capital-A-squiggle><backwards paragraph symbol>n".    Also,
yesterday I tried to type a British pound sign in vim (using ^KPd), I
got a <capital-A-squiggle> as well as the pound sign, and they acted
like one character that took up two spaces.  I get similar but
different results when I ssh in from a Macintosh.

All these things work fine with RedHat 9, either locally or through
ssh.  Is there any way to get Fedora Core 3 to work as well with this
as RH9?

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