.zshrc

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ fi
 alias   darkbg='xtermcontrol --bg "#000" --fg "#FFF"; export BG=dark'
 alias   lightbg='xtermcontrol --bg "#EEE" --fg "#000" --highlight="#0FF"; export BG=light'
 alias   defaultbg='. ~/.zxtermcolors'
-alias   ag='ag --color-path "34;47"'
+alias   ag='ag --color-path 32'
 
 namedir(){
 	eval "$1=~+"
@@ -127,3 +127,40 @@ fi
 # for new style completion:
 autoload -U compinit
 compinit
+
+utf=`locale -a | grep en_US.utf8`
+if [ -n "$utf" ]
+then
+    # this is a bit of a hack -
+    # locale -a advertises the locale as "en_US.utf8",
+    # but the glibc accepts both "en_US.utf8" and
+    # "en_US.UTF-8" and xterm recogizes only the latter.
+    # So we explicitely set the latter, even though that's
+    # not the canonical name and may break some day.
+    # 
+    case "`uname -sr`" in
+    Linux*)
+	LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+	;;
+    HP-UX*)
+	# UTF-8 locale on HP-UX is broken
+	LANG=en_US.iso88591
+	;;
+    *)
+	LANG=en_US.utf8
+	;;
+    esac
+else 
+    # fall back to latin 1.
+    LANG=en_US.iso88591
+fi
+export LANG
+case "$LANG" in
+*.iso88591)
+	export LESSCHARSET=latin1
+	export NLS_LANG=american_america.WE8ISO8859P1
+	;;
+*.UTF-8)
+	export NLS_LANG=american_america.UTF8
+	;;
+esac