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Bug#209402: locales: Setting LC_CTYPE to ISO-8859-1 does not work



On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:44:25PM +0200, Daniel Bonniot wrote:
> Phil Blundell wrote:
> >What leads you to believe that LC_CTYPE="ISO-8859-1" should be valid?
> 
> For instance http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-12.html

That HOWTO just looks wrong to me (or possibly outdated).

> (note: I have tried without success the different spelling, like 
> |iso_8859_1 and ||iso-8859-1)|

Try 'LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1' instead. You need the language and
country parts there.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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