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
