set encoding {<value>} show encoding
Valid values are
default - tells a terminal to use its default encoding iso_8859_1 - the most common Western European font used by many Unix workstations and by MS-Windows. This encoding is known in the PostScript world as 'ISO-Latin1'. iso_8859_2 - used in Central and Eastern Europe iso_8859_15 - a variant of iso_8859_1 that includes the Euro symbol koi8r - popular Unix cyrillic encoding koi8u - ukrainian Unix cyrillic encoding cp437 - codepage for MS-DOS cp850 - codepage for OS/2, Western Europe cp852 - codepage for OS/2, Central and Eastern Europe cp1250 - codepage for MS Windows, Central and Eastern Europe
Generally you must set the encoding before setting the terminal type.
Note that encoding is not supported by all terminal drivers and that
the device must be able to produce the desired non-standard characters.
The PostScript, X11 and wxt terminals support all encodings. OS/2 Presentation
Manager switches automatically to codepage 912 for iso_8859_2.