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

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 20:44, Daniel Bonniot wrote:
> >I think that's correct behaviour.  
>
> Then how would you choose that charset?

By selecting a locale that uses the encoding you want.  All the LC_*
variables take a locale name as their value.

> For instance http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-12.html
> (note: I have tried without success the different spelling, like 
> |iso_8859_1 and ||iso-8859-1)|

It sounds like the information in that document is incorrect.

p.