UTF-8?

[Jeffrey Ross]

I discovered that if you put the whole string of "unset" commands in the 
.bashrc you partially break "man" with it complaining about POSIX something.

Jeff

Andre Costa wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:01:23 -0500
> Tom Horsley <tomhorsley at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:49:16 -0500 (EST)
>> "Jeffrey Ross" <jeff at bubble.org> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> How can I adjust the system so that
>>> I get normal printed charactors?
>>>       
>> You can eradicate the scourge of UTF-8 by sticking this in
>> your .bashrc (assuming you use bash):
>>
>> # Redhat is fooling themselves if they think UTF8 actually functions
>> # well all the time (or even any of the time)...
>> #
>> unset LANG
>> unset LC_ADDRESS
>> unset LC_CTYPE
>> unset LC_COLLATE
>> unset LC_IDENTIFICATION
>> unset LC_MEASUREMENT
>> unset LC_MESSAGES
>> unset LC_MONETARY
>> unset LC_NAME
>> unset LC_NUMERIC
>> unset LC_PAPER
>> unset LC_TELEPHONE
>> unset LC_TIME
>> unset LC_ALL
>> LC_ALL='POSIX'
>> export LC_ALL
>>
>> Its in my .bashrc and things work ever so much better without
>> UTF-8 :-).
>>     
>
> I'm not a big fan of UTF-8 either =) In my case, I simply created a
> ~/.i18n file with this:
>
> SUPPORTED="en_US.iso88591"
>
> (or whatever charset you use)
>
> Fedora will use this instead of system default (/etc/sysconfig/i18n) if
> it exists.
>
> HTH,
>
> Andre
>
>