Re: Where is default character encoding set?

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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


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