[KLUG Members] RedHat 8.0 UTF-8 compatibility revisited ...

[Bruce Smith]

> [ Sorry if this is already known, but I didn't see it in the KLUG/LEAP
> archives ]
> 
> After following Bruce's comments, I found out that a simple change of
> "/etc/sysconfig/i18n":
> 
> From:
>    LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
>    SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
>    SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
> 
> To:
>    LANG="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
>    SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
>    SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
> 
> Fixes all my issues with several binary-only programs (like Acrobat
> Reader).  Each variable is just a colon (:) separated set of values, and
> one only needs to add "en_US:en" to the "LANG" variable.

Note:  If you're using GDM to login, it appears you must also modify
/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, and set:  DefaultLocale=en_US

I don't know about KDM, or other display managers.

> Maybe RedHat _should_ be doing this by default in 8.x???

Maybe, but I admit not to understanding much about the functioning of
the LANG variable.  I simply strace'ed acrobat, and found the problem
was in the LANG, and used "trial & error" to "fix" it from there.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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