How do I disable utf-8?

[Mike Hogsett]

Greg Miller wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to run an application that does not support utf-8. How
> do I disable it?
 >
> I've searched and searched have not found a way to do it "properly". The
> closest I got was to change the LANG variable manually. I assume that
> this is in a config file somewhere.

I find lots of things break with UTF-8.  Edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n

This is what I have in mine :

;cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="C"
#SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en"
#SYSFONT="lat0-sun16"
#SYSFONTACM="iso01"

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