Using German characters

[Ryan_11]

Hi,

I am trying to use the German special characters in a terminal based session.
When I type Alt+0246 for example to get the ? character, I just get garbage. I have tried setting the LANG enviroment variable but I am still missing something. I need a hint please.

Thanks
Ryan Odgers

[Carlos Fernandez Riera · Accepted solution]

run ksh:

stty cs8 -istrip.

Try now.

[Ryan_11]

AHHH! So easy. I had already set my terminal with stty cs8 -istrip but was using the POSIX sh shell. All I needed was to be using the Korn shell. Why doesn't this work with the POSIX shell?

Thanks a million Carlos!
Ryan

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

I whish to know it too...

Be warning about use of 'more'. It have the same problem.

[Marc Dijkstra]

Ryan!

Do u know if BASH is portable to hp-ux? I find the functionality in bash far better than ksh,sh,csh etc.

PS: Malawi off again, in PTA on wed, lets do beer!

[Manuel P. Ron]

Yes, the POSIX shell don't work with LANGUAGE directly. You must call a new shell (sh command) and now it work's. But, now, the users must type exit two times to really exit. The solution is to include in the .profile a exec call to replace the parent shell with the new shell. It is like 'exec /usr/bin/sh'. Be careful to include this line in root's .profile. In mantenience mode (hpux -is) the server go into a loop. Include a if-fi condition to check if the run-level is 3 or 5!

[Ryan_11]

Manuel,

Strange, but I can't get the characters to work even if I invoke a new /usr/bin/sh.
The ksh is working so that's the way I am going to go. The users don't interact with the shell at all so it doesn't matter to them.

Thanks to all for your help
Ryan

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

Hi Ryan:

No such strange, /sbin/sh and /usr/bin/sh are different; do ll on both.

You can change it on /etc/passwd ( for root it must be /sbin/sh).


Regards.