> Yves Savoie writes:
>> Christian Mangin wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> Please be more specific.
>>>
>>> Do you mean you don't get any accent when typing at the shell
>>> prompt ?
>>>
>>> Or are you trying to get some program (editor/mailer...) to
>>> recognize accented characters ?
>>
>> I don't have any accent anywhere not at the shell prompt, in vi
>> if i write accent it write \xe9 and in emacs if i write accent
>> it write space.
>
> This is usually an indication that you *haven't* set the
> appropriate LC_XXX variables in your shell environment. Can you
> check your environment variables when this happens? It should be
> easy to see what you have set, by typing:
>
> env | fgrep LANG
> env | fgrep LC_
>
> Then copy/paste the output of these commands in a response and
> post it here.

#env | fgrep LANG LANG=fr_CA

#env | fgrep LC_ LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.ISO8859-1 LC_COLLATE=fr_CA.ISO8859-1

>
>> I make another test. Now if i create folder or file with my
>> linux box and i write it on my freebsd server with nfs. I can
>> see my french character but not if i login directly on my
>> freebsd server. Any computer that access my files by network
>> can see my french character. Only directly on the server i
>> can't see my french character.
>
> That's cool. It means that FreeBSD doesn't really do anything to
> the French characters of the file name. Exactly as it should :)
>
> Regards,
> Giorgos