[erlang-questions] Accents on Macosx 10.4.11

[Philippe de Rochambeau]

Hi,

earlier today, I asked on this mailing list how you could make Erlang  
correctly display strings containing foreign accents in your terminal  
on macosx.

This evening, I found a solution after noticing Joe Armstrong's  
remark on page 30 of "Programming Erlang":

"What has happened to "Håkan" -- where did he go? This actually has  
nothing to do with Erlang but with the locale and character code  
settings on your terminal"


Since, by default, all locale variables on Macosx are set to  
"C" (type "locale" on the CLI), I set LANG as follows in my .bashrc  
file:

export LANG=fr_FR.ISO8859-1

Next, I switched my Terminal's character set encoding to Western (iso- 
latin-1). (In xterm, there no need to switch the character set as it  
seems to be iso-latin-1 by default.)

Last, I type [72,229,107,97,110]. in erlang and, tadah,

  "Håkan" appeared in all his splendor.

phiroc