Yes. Also, because Unix is multi-user, each user can have his/her own .i18n file, note the leading dot. 73. -- Bill On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Darrell Shandrow wrote: > Hi Bill, > > So, upon login, the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file is read? > > Thanks. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123" <wacker at octothorp.org> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 10:50 PM > Subject: Re: Red Hat character set issues now resolved; thanks! > > > > Logging out and back in should have taken care of it. Even better, export > > LANG=en_US in the current session. > > > > HTH and 73. > > -- > > Bill in Denver > > > > > > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Darrell Shandrow wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Thanks to Janina for the excellent lead to the root of my issue with all > the "garbage" characters when remotely establishing a terminal to one of my > RH boxes. I used locale -a to determine the correct locale setting, then > removed the .utf8 from the end of the lang spec in /etc/sysconfig/i18n, > rebooted and my issue is resolved. Since I know most things in Linux should > not require a reboot, how could I have avoided this in this situation? > > > > > > Thanks.