Hi, a while ago I had a strange problem with mysql and java servlets. The servlet would not pull up accented characters and umlaut-characters correctly when they came from the database. I finally figured out that I had to set the MySQL-JDBC driver to use ISO88591 rather than UTF8 (which was the default). The default came from a system property, and so setting "LANG=en_US.iso88591" in my tomcat startup-script fixed the problem as well. Now I had some other problem with displaying man pages. One server shows it fine, a newer FC3 server screws up doublequotes and other characters. Even setting NROFF in man.config to "NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc", which used to always fix my display problems did not fix the problem this time. I then figured out that calling "LANG=en_US.iso88591" before calling man together with the new NROFF setting fixed my problem. So here is my question: /etc/sysconfig/i18n says: LANG="en_US.UTF-8" SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" What will happen if I change this to LANG=en_US.iso88591 ??? Will this break tons of other stuff on my server? I checked the old servers (redhat 9 and earlier) that do not have all those problems, but surprisingly, they have the same content in /etc/sysconfig/i18n. So where else are they different? If I change the LANG variable, do I have to change the SUPPORTED variable as well??? Thanks, MARK
