Stupid question: how to get accents in zsh?

[mito@xxxxxxxxxxx (Louis-David Mitterrand)]

I can't seem to get accented characters in zsh, I tried:

export LC_CTYPE=iso_8859_1
export LANG=iso_8859_1
stty cs8 -istrip
etc...

I looked everywhere in zsh-doc, but I can't find any builtin.

Thanks for any help.

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