On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 04:56:09AM -0500, Berna Massingill wrote: > On FC2 (and earlier RedHat) systems, error messages from gcc seem > to have been straight ASCII. On a couple of FC4 systems, output > includes some non-ASCII characters; specifically, the characters > used for single quotes (previous ` and ') have been replaced by > something multi-byte. (I base this claim on redirecting stderr > into a file and then displaying file contents with "od -c".) > The sequence that replaces ' displays okay, but the sequence that > replaces ` does not (appears as boldface u with umlaut). > > My guess is that there's an environment variable somewhere that's > not getting set quite right; the man page for gcc seems to be > indicating that what gets produced for error messages is controlled > by environment variables LANG and LC_MESSAGES. LC_MESSAGES is unset; > LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8. It is LC_CTYPE that tells the compiler what the display character set is. If LC_ALL nor LC_CTYPE is present in the environment, ctype defaults to $LANG (if set), otherwise to C. If your terminal can't display UTF-8 encoded characters, then I guess you shouldn't be using UTF-8 character set... Works just fine here in FC4 both on the console and in gnome-terminal. Jakub
