Dave Lester said: > Hello all, > > I have two machines running FC2. One I upgraded from Redhat 9 --> FC1 --> > FC2 and the $LANG environmental variable is set to > > [root@pigpen root]# echo $LANG > en_US > > On the other machine, I did a fresh install of FC2 and the $LANG > variable on that is set to: > > [root@linus ~]# echo $LANG > en_US.UTF-8 > > On the latter machine, whenever I do a man or look at other text files in > vi, I get some characters that are screwed up. That's why I'm assuming > that it's the $LANG variable that's doing it. > > Any guidance on fixing this is appreciated. > > Thanks > > Dave Lester > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Kludge fix for this in my .bash_profile I set export $LANG="en_US" and this seemed to fix the problem. However, I would still like to find out where this is set globally because I know other users on this machine are going to have a problem with this. If anyone knows..... Dave Lester -- ======================= Dave Lester dlester@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.davenet.org =======================
