Where is the $LANG variable defined?

[Mike Burger]

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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