On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Curtis Doty wrote: > 11:20am Christopher Wong said: > > >The Unicode changes that Red Hat made in RH 8/9 screws up line drawing > >characters for apps running on the console. This affects some ordinary > >apps like mc as well as one of my home-grown apps. How do I get back the > >correct behavior? > > That annoyed the heck out of me, so I just edited /etc/sysconfig/i18n. The > offending var is LANG and specifically the UFT-8 part. I found that merely setting LANG in /etc/sysconfig/i18n was not enough without rebooting. Since I was not eager to reboot, I found that running unicode_stop did the trick. (On boot, Red Hat runs /sbin/setsysfont that calls unicode_start if a UTF-8 locale was specified in /etc/sysconfig/i18n.) Chris
