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Re: locales and accented charaters



on Sat, 26 Oct 2002 01:59:31PM -0400, sean finney insinuated:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 07:13:13PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> > LANG doesn't influence which characters the system considers printable.
> > LC_CTYPE (e.g. "en_US.ISO8859-1") does.
> 
> right, but at least on my box, if i specify LANG=en_US, i don't need
> to set LC_CTYPE explicitly to be able to view accented characters:
> 
> balthasar[~]13:50:26$ echo $LANG
> en_US
> balthasar[~]13:51:34$ echo $LC_CTYPE
> 
> balthasar[~]13:51:39$ locale
> LANG=en_US
> LC_CTYPE="en_US"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
> LC_TIME="en_US"
> <...snip...>

huh ... doesn't seem to affect mine ... guess i'm just going to stick
with the hack of aliasing ls to use LS_ALL=POSIX, and specifying
LS_ALL to otherwise be en_US.ISO-8859-1 ... thanks, though.

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