I'm sure this is an FAQ. I've read up on http://nscp.upenn.edu/aix4.3html/aixbman/prftungd/natlangsup.htm which explains the structure types and why it's so expensive to do internationalization. So I went back to using "C" for my RH 8 and 9 systems: $ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n #LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LANG="C" SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" Basically I'm trying to find out how LANG="en_US.UTF-8" would benefit me. So far it has caused great pain as my grep searches (example below) are severly slowed. Is there any benefit with "en_US.UTF-8" that I don't see in respect to other linux apps? Why didn't RH make "C" the default for US installs? -eric wood $ LANG="en_US.UTF-8";export LANG $ time bash -c 'grep WOOD /tmp/customers.tab | wc -l' 13774 real 0m20.267s user 0m20.240s sys 0m0.030s $ LANG="C";export LANG $ time bash -c 'grep WOOD /tmp/customers.tab | wc -l' 13774 real 0m0.060s user 0m0.030s sys 0m0.030s -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
