On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:04:42PM -0800, Victor Sira wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx> > > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 3:28:03 PM > > Subject: Where is default character encoding set? > > > > My gnome-terminal windows are defaulting to iso-8859-1 rather than > > utf-8 because the "Current Locale" is iso-8859-1. > > > > This may well be because I set my Fedora 7 locale to iso-8859-1 and > > the setting has got carried across to my Fedora 8 installation. > > However I can't see where it's set. > > > > How do I get everything to be UTF-8? > > Try: > > /etc/sysconfig/i18n > That contains:- LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" ... but my gnome-terminals still obstinately claim a default of iso-8859-1. The LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" *is* getting into my environment, when I do 'env | grep LANG' I see:- LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 -- Chris Green