utf8 vs iso8859-1 speed/responsiveness

Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Tue Jun 29 17:47:12 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 10:25, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 10:03 -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 	Current NLS codepage is set as utf8, I'm wondeirng if this is the cause
> > of the slower response of my FC2 system.
> > 
> > Anyone knows how to tweak this parameter to say iso8859-1 via a proc or
> > a sysconfig interface/file?
> 
> The file you want is /etc/sysconfig/i18n.  Mine was changed to make man
> pages and acroread work and looks like:
> 
> LANG="en_US"
> SUPPORTED="en_US:en"
> SYSFONT="lat0-sun16"
> SYSFONTACM="iso01"
> 
That's where it's located. Thanks.

> > 
> > Does the change actually make a difference?
> 
> Dunno.  Try it and let us know.

Just changed it to 
LANG="en_US"
SUPPORTED="en_US:en"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

What's the SYSFONTACM for?

does it take a reboot to come into effect?
I guess I'll have to find that out later.

Thanks





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