> bitbasher@dccnet.com ("BitBasher") writes:
> > But, just like you, I have no idea if this is going to mess up anything
> > else. Looks like console Unicode was rushed out the RH 8.0 door without
> > full fixing may console-based apps. I guess we're now in the same boat
> as
> > all the other non-english-us Linux users who have been struggling with
> > international character support for years.
>
> In my case it breaks some perl scripts that do text file parsing (perl
> chokes on characters). I had to include a "use bytes;" but in the end I
> decided to unset the LANG variable before running the script.
The very same problem with perl scripting occurs with compilation of KDE
from CVS - it generates spurious 0085^@ character sequences in the Makefiles.
Unsetting LANG or setting it to C fixes this.
Regards,
Malcolm
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