I've just starting having to deal with some japanese data under
 	NetBSD 2.0.

 	Setting LC_CTYPE and LANG to en_US.UTF-8 and using xterm
 	-u8 allows some apps to display UTF8 data correctly such
 	as 'less' or psql (Command line interface to PostgreSQL),
 	but others still fail - vi still works in 'byte per character'
 	and 'ls' shows '?' unless -w is given.

 	All of this is under an xterm, I've not even gone near non
 	ISO-Latin1 data on a console window.

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