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
