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

[David Simmons]

Here are some thoughts from another LUG I posted the info to...

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This has been discussed several times here since 7.3 came out, since it
changes the ordering in 'ls', and some applications, of files and
directories as well as the character issues.  In 7.3 is was just the
ordering that I know was an issue.  The character issue did not appear
until 8.0.

Tough I personally make the changes by adding these lines to the file
$HOME/.i18n

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> > [ 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.
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> 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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