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On Friday 11 October 2002 05:37 pm, Jim Zimmerman 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?
The variable is defined in /etc/sysconfig/i18n, you can change it there
for all users.
Details on the change and the reasoning behind it are included in the
release-notes on the install media, or the installed machine at:
/usr/share/doc/redhat-release-8.0/RELEASE-NOTES-i386
$ grep -A 20 Distribution
/usr/share/doc/redhat-release-8.0/RELEASE-NOTES-i386
Distribution General Notes
o Red Hat Linux now installs using UTF-8 (Unicode) locales by default in
languages other than Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.
This has been known to cause various issues:
. Line drawing characters in applications such as make menuconfig do
not always appear correctly in certain locales.
. On the console, the latarcyrheb-sun16 font is used for best Unicode
coverage. Due to the use of this font, bold colors are not available.
. Certain third party applications, such as the Adobe(R) Acrobat
Reader(R), may not function correctly (or crash upon startup) because
they lack support for Unicode locales. Until third party developers
provide such support in their products, you may work around this issue
by setting the LANG environment variable at the shell prompt to C
prior to typing the application name. For example:
env LANG=C acroread
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