shell to read utf

[stan]

On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 10:05:54 -0700 (PDT)
chloe K <chloekcy2000 at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> Hi
>  
> How can I read utf-8 in shell

On Fedora, this seems to be done automatically depending on the value
of the LANG, LC_ALL, or LC_TYPE variables.  If the locale you select
requires utf-8, it is enabled.  It seems you can enable it
explicitly by setting the UNICODE variable to true, as well, though a
quick peruse didn't tell me where.

A more generic answer with additional information is here.

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter07/console.html