How to type ISO_8859_1 characters in shell script?

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hello All,

I want to type some special characters to check in my shell script as string. Could you please help me how do I type in my shell script. For example "LA CORU�A". Here the last but 1 character is related to ISO_8859_1 related. But don't know how do I type in shell script programming. Anybody please help me. I am using PuTTy 0.60 version.

Thanks,
Nag

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Did you try ALT-194 - hold down the alt key, then enter 1 9 4 on the numeric keypad?

What does

locale

show for you?

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Hi, nvkuriseti,

In my old Fedora 5, it is enough to make sure that
environment is properly set up, by doing:

export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1

, and, when editing (with vi, for example), you will naturally type
"~ and n" to get the tilded n letter, or ", and c" to get cedilla, and
so on for all accented ones.

It works for me.

Regards,

Mario.

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Also, in putty, make sure you select the proper character set is selected:
Putty configuration -> window -> translation