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From: Tony Nugent <T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au>
Subject: Answer: Where to fond irregular ascii characters
Date: 1995/05/19
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beegled@eosc.osshe.edu (David Beegle) writes:

>Can anyone tell me where I could find characters suucch as an "a" with an
>accent mark or an "n" with a tilde?  Any of the odd ascii characters for
>unix?  Any Help would be greatly appreciated.  

Dave,

You really need to read the iso_8859_1 faq.

ftp to rtfm.mit.edu :: /pub/usenet/comp.unix.questions/

In there you'll find this:

ISO_8859-1_National_Character_Set_FAQ 

It should answer this question for you.

Specifically (if I remember correctly), there is a section about
using COUNTRY.SYS in dos to get this going for you.

If you are on a unix system, then do this in your ~/.login file:

setenv LANGC
setenv LC_TYPE iso_8859_1

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Tony
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