Lee, Thanks for the info. All my LC_ variables are set to EN-Us.UTF8. Perhaps I should have been more specific. Pine says it is set to ISO-5, etc. Why doesn't it follow the system setting? How can it be changed? Thanks, John On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: > This is in response to John Boyer's question about how to set the display > to UTF-8. I just discovered this yesterday and learned more while writing > this message. I'm writing now to expose any misconceptions that (probably) > still remain: > > It's probably already set that way, assuming the time zone was set during > installation. The locale program shows all the locale-related environment > variables. All of mine are set to en_US.UTF-8. > > It appears that they all get changed, or at least masked, if I assign a > value to LC_ALL. For example, > > LC_ALL="C" > > gives me the C locale and > > LC_ALL="POSIX" > > gives me the POSIX locale. Note that I have to export this variable or > the locale program doesn't see it. > > The command > > locale -a > > gives a list of all locales available on my computer. > > locale -m > > gives all the key maps. When setting LC_ALL I can apparently leave out all > hyphens. For example, ISO-8859-15 is a key map on my machine but > en_US.ISO885915 is permissible if not preferred when setting LC_ALL. > > It is not an error to set LC_ALL to an invalid value. > > LC_ALL="junk";export LC_ALL > > produced no errors and the locale command dutifully reported all LC > variables as set to junk. The default collating sequence for the sort > command honored the case of the letters (capitals first) as in C or POSIX. > Unsetting LC_ALL returned everything to en_US.UTF-8 (note the hyphen). > > So, that's the way it looks to me. OK all you old Unix geezers, where'd I > mess up? > > Lee > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list