On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 01:57:11PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > >It works.. So ok, but i don't get to logic in this.. > >RH7.3 did need that and now that isn't needed with same locale settings. > That's exactly the logic. If you use a UTF-8 locale, then you no longer > need any additional "special" locale settings for stuff to work right. ($:~) cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG="C" SYSFONT="lat9w-08" SYSFONTACM="iso15" LC_CTYPE="fi_FI@euro" LC_COLLATE="fi_FI@euro" LC_MONETARY="fi_FI@euro" ($:~) locale LANG=C LC_CTYPE=fi_FI@euro LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_COLLATE=fi_FI@euro LC_MONETARY=fi_FI@euro LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_PAPER="C" LC_NAME="C" LC_ADDRESS="C" LC_TELEPHONE="C" LC_MEASUREMENT="C" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C" LC_ALL= ($:~) echo -n ä>thingie ($:~) ls -la thingie -rw-r--r-- 1 bestis users 1 Dec 1 00:54 thingie Where's the UTF-8? Seems only 1 byte to me. -- Jani Ollikainen http://iki.fi/bestis/