how to make user account partially bi-lingual?

[William Mattison]

> The ISO-8859 text is a good indication that the file is encoded in GB2312.

> 
> So, you'll want
> 
> -f GB2312
> -t UTF-8
> 
> That is all....

Progress.  That made the file display in vi in Terminal correctly.  Thank-you, Ed.

But the Chinese still doesn't display correctly in vi in Konsole and XTerrm.

There are other issues, but I will initiate separate threads for those.

Bill.