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2.21.18 encoding
The encoding command selects a character encoding. Syntax:
set encoding {<value>}
show encoding
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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
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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`.