Yeah, this in .tcshrc seems to have worked:

 	setenv LC_CTYPE en_US.ISO-8859-1
 	setenv LANG en_US.ISO-8859-1


On Sun, 18 May 2014, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote:

> I'm not trying to get aterm to support unicode. Hmm. I wonder if I can 
> remember what the pre-unicode locale used to be... iso-8859-1 was it?...
>
> On Sun, 18 May 2014, Jake Vath wrote:
>
>> The output of locale looks fine and I'm guessing your /etc/local.gen and
>> /etc/locale.alias are set up correctly.
>> I'm not sure there is much you can do, as I couldn't find anything about
>> aterm's unicode support.
>> 
>> -> Jake
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:04 PM, <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote:
>>       sterling at dragon:/home/sterling> locale
>>       LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>       LANGUAGE=
>>       LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
>>       LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
>>       LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
>>       LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
>>       LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
>>       LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
>>       LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
>>       LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
>>       LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
>>       LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
>>       LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
>>       LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
>>       LC_ALL=
>> 
>>
>>       (and yeah, it does work with uxterm).
>> 
>>
>>       On Sun, 18 May 2014, Jake Vath wrote:
>>
>>             Hmm, I have not done much with aterm.
>>             What does the output of locale give you?
>>
>>             -> Jake
>>
>>             On May 18, 2014 8:47 PM, <tclug at freakzilla.com>
>>             wrote:
>>                   I might, but I actually use aterm, and I'm not
>>             switching away
>>                   from it because nothing else has all the cute
>>             nice features I
>>                   want (:
>>
>>                   Basically I want to tell the thing to stop
>>             with the unicode.
>>
>>                   On Sun, 18 May 2014, Jake Vath wrote:
>> 
>>
>>                         Do you have uxterm installed?
>>                         I thought uxterm had unicode support.
>>
>>                         -> Jake
>>
>>                         On May 18, 2014 8:39 PM,
>>             <tclug at freakzilla.com>
>>                         wrote:
>>                               Followup, naturally when I look at
>>             that email
>>                         using OS X's
>>                               built-in terminal, those look like
>>                         wrapped-quotes. My xterm in
>>                               Linux, though, just shows junk. So
>>             I'm
>>                         assuming this is a
>>                               unicode thing and I need to tell
>>             my Linux
>>                         system to cut that
>>                               out. Ideas?
>>
>>                               On Sun, 18 May 2014,
>>             tclug at freakzilla.com
>>                         wrote:
>>
>>                                     Hi all,
>>
>>                                     Ok, so a while ago for some
>>             reason
>>                         quotemarks in my
>>                                     terminal window have been
>>             replaced by
>>                         weird
>>                                     characters. Like right now
>>             I'm running a
>>                         cp -v, and
>>                                     the results look like this:
>>
>>                                            
>>                         ‘/mnt/cf/DCIM/100CANON/IMG_1421.CR2’ ->
>>                                    
>>             ‘/home/sterling/Photos/2014/05/1818’
>>
>>                                     Normally that used to be
>>             surrounded by
>>                                     single-quotes. Now it's that
>>             weird mess
>>                         that I'm not
>>                                     even sure will display
>>             correctly in
>>                         everyone else's
>>                                     email.
>> 
>>
>>                                     Pretty sure it's a locale
>>             setting but
>>                         since I've
>>                                     never messed with that, I
>>             have no idea
>>                         what to look
>>                                     for. Anyone?
>> 
>>
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