Steve Holmes wrote: > Out of curiousity, what do these environment variables do? on my Arch > Linux system, LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8 but LC_MESSAGES is not set at > all. I'll have to observe next time I'm in a console if any thare are > any issues with funny characters. They control the character set that is used for displaying text. As for me, I use en_US, which is iso-8859-1. In /etc/rc.conf, I have the following: LOCALE="en_US" If you want to do that, you may need to uncomment the en_US entry in /etc/locale.gen and re-run locale-gen as root. Happy hacking, -- Chris
