Where is the $LANG variable defined?
Mike Burger
mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Sat Nov 6 17:15:14 UTC 2004
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Dave Lester wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have two machines running FC2. One I upgraded from Redhat 9 --> FC1 --> FC2 and the $LANG environmental variable is set to
>
> [root at pigpen root]# echo $LANG
> en_US
>
> On the other machine, I did a fresh install of FC2 and the $LANG variable on that is set to:
>
> [root at linus ~]# echo $LANG
> en_US.UTF-8
>
> On the latter machine, whenever I do a man or look at other text files in vi, I get some characters that are screwed up. That's why I'm assuming that it's the $LANG variable that's doing it.
>
> Any guidance on fixing this is appreciated.
You could probably go about adding it to your .bash_profile.
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