Foreign characters not displayed properly in terminal

[evoweiss]

Hi all,

I'm using konsole as my terminal (I have also tried this with xterm) and noticed something peculiar. If there is a foreign character in the text, e.g., some accented letter, it will display as a highlighted <E8> when viewed with 'less'. It looks fine using more, pico, or nano. Any ideas?

Best,

Alex

[tukachinchila]

I've run into the same thing from time-to-time with "man" (which makes use of "less"), but it happens so infrequently that I've never bothered looking into it.

You could try using UTF-8 by following this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml Then (if it's still necessary) setup "less" to use the UTF-8 character set by setting LESSCHARSET=utf-8 and see if that helps.
See "man less" for better help setting up UTF-8.

[rofro]

Similar topic https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2733363.html#2733363
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