utf8 vs iso8859-1 speed/responsiveness

Phil Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov
Tue Jun 29 17:25:26 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 10:03 -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	Current NLS codepage is set as utf8, I'm wondeirng if this is the cause
> of the slower response of my FC2 system.
> 
> Anyone knows how to tweak this parameter to say iso8859-1 via a proc or
> a sysconfig interface/file?

The file you want is /etc/sysconfig/i18n.  Mine was changed to make man
pages and acroread work and looks like:

LANG="en_US"
SUPPORTED="en_US:en"
SYSFONT="lat0-sun16"
SYSFONTACM="iso01"

> 
> Does the change actually make a difference?

Dunno.  Try it and let us know.

Phil






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