Encoding issues
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Well I write in Spanish too. It's my native language and if you speak 
a language that's not English you probably need to read and see characters
that don't correspond to the English language. You know what I mean, accented
letters, weird letters with odd shapes and decoration. ASCII developers didn't
think of. 

This would probably happen everywhere but at tilde.pink the default shell is
sh (bourne shell). The bourne shell has just .shrc file. Also, by default
NetBSD (BSD distro in which SDF & tilde.pink are based upon) includes the
utility setlocale but it turned out that it didn't work for me. 

So what actually worked for me was to try the good old ```export``` 
using that to make LANG support UTF-8. Since I speak Spanish I added 
es_ES locale in this way within .shrc:

    export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8

Bourne shell doesn't have "source" (that's a bash utility). You just run
    
    . ./shrc

However it's just as good to get out and back to your session. After that 
you shouldn't have any issues either typing non English letters in your langua-
ges or reading them from other people. For instance I read another guy's 
gopher hole in Russian with absolutely no issues. And that'd be it.

2020-10-29.