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Re: getting german "umlauts" on potato



On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:13:10AM +0100, Andre Berger wrote:
> 
> If you're on bash, add to /etc/profile:
> 
> LANG=de_DE ; export LANG
> LC_ALL=de_DE ; export LC_ALL
> LC_CTYPE="iso_8859_1" ; export LC_CTYPE
> LC_MESSAGES="de_DE" ; export LC_MESSAGES

you could also write these like so:

export LANG=de_DE
export LC_ALL=de_DE
export LC_CTYPE="iso_8859_1"
export LC_MESSAGES="de_DE"

even simpler, i don't think you need to set all those, just LANG,
which you can do in /etc/environment.  (where its set to C by default)

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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