Scot L. Harris wrote: > To resolve the problem I needed to edit the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file and > remove the .UTF-8 from the LANG variable. > This happens very occasionally with makefiles written in Perl. The simplest solution is to do export LANG=C before executing the script. > I don't think this is a bug in perl. As such why the insistence that > UTF-8 be the default? What does this really buy? > > > Any chance of getting this changed in future releases? UTF-8 is the standard now, other operating systems included. It allows you to read documents written in a variety of different languages - any language in fact. In RH8 unicode support was a mess, but now it's near perfect with very few applications not supporting it. If you find it a pain, by all means change your /etc/sysconfig/i18n, but in my opinion at least UTF8 should be the default. Jonathan
