BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  utf-8 stuff..
De:       Maurice Kinal
Data:     Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:33:25 +0000
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Hej August!

> via simple Alt-[key] presses get the desired umlaut version for the
> letters I needed.  That was all done in a terminal of sorts with
> Frontdoor editor, no problem.

That still works in linux even on the commandline.  In the case of the '' character I just inserted it in vim using that exact method - holding the left-Alt down while typing 2, 4 and 8 in that exact order.  Note that it is automajically converted to utf8 by my current vimrc but could easily be an 8-bit Latvian character set.  Pick one and I'll prove it.

> If you have a choice, use UTF-8.

Amen.  A done deal for sure.  This reply is utf8.

> Windows-1257 - *Baltic*

Doable.

> ISO-8859-13 - *Baltic Rim*

Also doable.

> IBM Code Page 775 (CP775) - *Baltic DOS*

Sure ... why not?  :::snicker:::

Anyhow my example 'echo -e ...' piped to iconv should produce the proper characters without inputting any special keystrokes.  In it's case I used \xf8 and assumed the terminal codepage was iso-8859-1 or latin1 which are the same thing.  The example given could have been cp437 but then \xf8 in cp437 isn't the desired character in this case.

Anyhow it looks like your busybox is capable.  Too bad about your crippled OS but thems the breaks when dealing with MS products.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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