On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:29:23 +0100, "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <dm@zensunni.demon.nl> wrote: > LANG sets the preferred language for messages; it does not change the > system's opinion of what characters are printable. Use LC_CTYPE for that. LANG is a basic variable for the locale feature. LC_* is not necessary. if LC_* is unset, LANG is used for LC_* categories. -- Tatsuya Kinoshita