Changing $LANG

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:02:11PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>    Would changing $LANG to plain old 'C' (in /etc/sysconfig/i18n) have 
> any adverse effect to the system in general?  Right now it stands at 
> 'en_US.UTF-8' which tends to cause trouble with other programs 
> displaying weird characters.

Those problems are bugs -- what programs do you see them in?

Anyway, you don't need to go to just "C" to disable UTF8 -- you can change
"en_US.UTF-8" to just "en_US".

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