On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 06:41, Sebastian Bauer (ml) wrote: > since RH8 the standard encoding seems to be UTF-8. First it was a > problem when login to a remote machine with standard iso encoding. Now > I use gnome's terminal where I can change this setting. > > But I have an application - it's hte German "Das Telefonbuch Map & Route > 2002" which has extreme problems with UTF-8. It doesn't install. Also > the old StarOffice 5.2 cannot shows its German Umlaute. > > Does anyone know how to change these settings. > > It would be great when you can help me. Thank you in advance. You have, I believe, several options... 1. Change the default system LANG to a non-utf8 variant. 2. Make a change in your .bashrc such that when you login you have a non-utf8 LANG setting. 3. Use a script and/or alias to call your application and set the LANG setting to a non-utf8 setting. FWIW, #3 is what I do for applications that need LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1. My script sets the environment variable, exports it, then calls the real application. Ed -- http://www.shorewall.net Shorewall, for all your firewall needs
