On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:37:51 -0700 Jim Zimmerman <jzimmerman@malyswest.com> wrote: # I am running a new install of RH8. I had been having trouble with # character display in ncurses displays and man pages. I started # comparing some of my variable definitions to those on my 7.3 # machine. I noticed that the LANG variable was defined as # en_US.UTF-8 on my 8.0 machine, and en_US on my 7.3 machine. I # temporarily changed the variable to en_US on my 8.0 machine, and # this seemed to resolve the issue. How will this change impact other # applications, and where this variable is defined so I can change it # globally? It will effect any terminal emulator that cannot understand UTF chars. /etc/sysconfig/i18n is the file where you can set LANG globally. -- Jesse Keating j2Solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
