I upgraded from 9.? to 10.2. I used a custom kernel to avoid vt and raster
fonts in sc. I updated as many ports as would build.
Now I cannot find an editor that will display my files with accent
characters correctly. I know the files are still iso-8859-1 because they
are the same size they were and when I cat them, they have the right
characters in them. This also shows that my term (cons25l1) can display
the characters correctly. But joe, joe2, ee, and pico-alpine seem to
convert them to some kind of UTF mess, with two bytes which display as grey
blocks.
I have tried using LC_ALL and LANG as en_US.iso-8859-1 in .login_conf, and
unsetting them, I have tried several screen maps.
How far back do I have to downgrade to eliminate UTF from my system
entirely? I don't care if I can't run a gui. I just want an editor that
will open iso-8859-1 as iso-8859-1 and not any 2-byte whatever, and will
display accented characters correctly, as cat does.
I will never want to use sanskrit or Chinese characters. I just want
Western European characters and I do not want to waste two bytes on them.
I want to use the VGA characters, which the experiment with cat
demonstrates are on my video card and do work. I do not want unreadable
raster fonts.
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