Re: UTF-8?

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Hi Tom,

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:01:23 -0500
Tom Horsley <tomhorsley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:49:16 -0500 (EST)
> "Jeffrey Ross" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > How can I adjust the system so that
> > I get normal printed charactors?
> 
> You can eradicate the scourge of UTF-8 by sticking this in
> your .bashrc (assuming you use bash):
> 
> # Redhat is fooling themselves if they think UTF8 actually functions
> # well all the time (or even any of the time)...
> #
> unset LANG
> unset LC_ADDRESS
> unset LC_CTYPE
> unset LC_COLLATE
> unset LC_IDENTIFICATION
> unset LC_MEASUREMENT
> unset LC_MESSAGES
> unset LC_MONETARY
> unset LC_NAME
> unset LC_NUMERIC
> unset LC_PAPER
> unset LC_TELEPHONE
> unset LC_TIME
> unset LC_ALL
> LC_ALL='POSIX'
> export LC_ALL
> 
> Its in my .bashrc and things work ever so much better without
> UTF-8 :-).

I'm not a big fan of UTF-8 either =) In my case, I simply created a
~/.i18n file with this:

SUPPORTED="en_US.iso88591"

(or whatever charset you use)

Fedora will use this instead of system default (/etc/sysconfig/i18n) if
it exists.

HTH,

Andre

-- 
Andre Oliveira da Costa


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