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

[Andrew Anderson]

On 25 Dec 2002, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

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

Colon separated values are not valid, so what you are doing is providing
ain invalid LANG variable, which eventually evaluates down to the same
thing as an empty LANG variable, which is the same as setting LANG=C, 
which is why things appear to work for you with these settings.

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