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[Jani Ollikainen]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 01:57:11PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> >It works.. So ok, but i don't get to logic in this..
> >RH7.3 did need that and now that isn't needed with same locale settings.
> That's exactly the logic.  If you use a UTF-8 locale, then you no longer 
> need any additional "special" locale settings for stuff to work right.

($:~) cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="C"
SYSFONT="lat9w-08"
SYSFONTACM="iso15"
LC_CTYPE="fi_FI at euro"
LC_COLLATE="fi_FI at euro"
LC_MONETARY="fi_FI at euro"

($:~) locale
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE=fi_FI at euro
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE=fi_FI at euro
LC_MONETARY=fi_FI at euro
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=

($:~) echo -n ä>thingie
($:~) ls -la thingie
-rw-r--r--    1 bestis   users           1 Dec  1 00:54 thingie

Where's the UTF-8? Seems only 1 byte to me.



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