Locale +vim woes

From: d0x (dan_at_no.spam)
Date: 06/10/04

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    Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 03:07:12 -0400

    not really sure where to post this one. but here goes.

    I am having trouble writing german letters in vi. I read somewhere that i
    can get the 'ess-zett' by pressing CNTRL+K then type ss. This only works
    with a fake locale though.

    for example. If I do this before entering vi, i can create the extra
    letters.
    # export LANG=BLAH
    # locale
    locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
    locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or
    directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or
    directory LANG=BLAH
    LC_CTYPE="BLAH"
    LC_NUMERIC="BLAH"
    LC_TIME="BLAH"
    LC_COLLATE="BLAH"
    LC_MONETARY="BLAH"
    LC_MESSAGES="BLAH"
    LC_PAPER="BLAH"
    LC_NAME="BLAH"
    LC_ADDRESS="BLAH"
    LC_TELEPHONE="BLAH"
    LC_MEASUREMENT="BLAH"
    LC_IDENTIFICATION="BLAH"
    LC_ALL=

    BUT, if i do it like this
    # export LANG=en_US-UTF-8
            it will not let me do fancy letters in vi.
    # export LANG=de_DE-UTF-8
            when I open vi, everything is in germam like i expected. But, I still
            can't create those extra letters.

    Thanks

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