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From: Andreas Prilop <prilop4...@trashmail.net>
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Subject: Re: UTF-8 support
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On Wed, 30 May 2012, patric aristide wrote:

> I'm struggling to display non English characters correctly.

Which characters exactly?

> My OS doesn't support UTF-8

I wonder which operating system you are using in the year 2012.
What do you get on
  $ locale -a
?

> The terminal itself doesn't support UTF-8 either but
> uses Latin-1 instead.

Which terminal program? Can you select any other encodings?