"Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Samuel Flory wrote: > > > Tommy McNeely wrote: > > > the i18n should not be modified. if you have an app that is > > > acting funny, then just do > > > > > > $ export LANG=C > > > $ man whatever > > > > Actually putting this in your .bashrc is a better fix. > > alias man="env LANG=C man" > > but that's only going to help the specific user that does that. > if you're the admin, i would think that fixing the problem on > a system-wide basis is a much better way to go, no? So put it into /etc/profile > and your solution fixes it only for the man command, not for > other commands like "acroread", which suffers from the same > problem. You need to do this for each affected software. It's the software that's broken, not the locale setting! Best regards, Martin Stricker -- Homepage: http://www.martin-stricker.de/ Linux Migration Project: http://www.linux-migration.org/ Red Hat Linux 7.3 for low memory: http://www.rule-project.org/ Registered Linux user #210635: http://counter.li.org/ -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list