[oclug] Character set problem

[Asad Quraishi]

Patrick Smith wrote:

> Asad Quraishi wrote:
>
>> Patrick Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm... what happens if you change this to just
>>>
>>> LANG=en_CA
>>>
>> Same problem
>
>
> What about LANG=en_CA.ISO-8859-1 ?
>
> Also, as Joe suggested, can you show us the output of the 'locale' 
> command with various settings of $LANG?
>
>
Thanks Patrick - it worked!  Ijust set $LANG to en_CA.ISO-8859-1.  This 
solved both the man and Acrobat problems.  Can anyone tell me where 
these variables are initialized?  Are they part of some larger-scoped 
language setup or will just changing them be enough?  Why does RedHat 
set it to UTF-8 when it doesn't even adequtely work for displaying man 
pages?  I don't know much about international character sets (ASCII's 
about it) so if anyone has a link they could point me to that would 
tutor me I'd be really appreciative.

I know I know - loose Red Hat.  I'll replace it with Debian as soon as I 
have the time.

- Asad

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