`<div dir="ltr"><div><div>You mean into /etc/default/init ? OK...I did that by echoing those lines (not the LANG parameter which I left blank as is) and settings it_IT.UTF-8<br><br></div>Now special characters are printed correctly (e.g. "°" or "à") but vi editor way of input commands is still a true mess: I'm still unable to enter the INSERT mode (via ESC + a) to type what I want, ESC + Shift + : works and I'm able to place commands like q! or wq and so on.<br><br></div>Really don't know why vi behaves in such way.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Volker A. Brandt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vab@bb-c.de" target="_blank">vab@bb-c.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> I will try to set locale so it will report:<br>
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> LANG= LC_CTYPE= LC_NUMERIC= LC_TIME= LC_COLLATE= LC_MONETARY=<br>
> LC_MESSAGES= LC_ALL=<br>
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</span>Forget locale. Just set the variables in your bash session.<br>
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