How do I disable utf-8?

Scot L. Harris webid at cfl.rr.com
Tue Aug 10 21:43:01 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 17:11, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Di, den 10.08.2004 schrieb Greg Miller um 22:34:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Greg
> 
> As UTF-8 is the future and only some applications have still problems
> with UTF-8 - non Fedora apps - you should start the application with
> "LANG=C program". If it is started as a service with an init script,
> then add the LANG=C to that script. I won't disable UTF-8 in general as
> Mike suggested.
> 
> Alexander

Did the patch to perl finally make its way out?  That seemed to be one
of the major problems for UTF-8 support.

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Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com>





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