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Re: Fluxbox, Bash and LANG



On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 03:11:59AM +1000, Rex Chan wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I was playing around with locales and locale related stuff. 
> I used dpkg-reconfigure localeconf 
> to set everything to C as a default.
> 
> I've verified as the /etc/environment file
> contains LANG=C.

Source this file in your ~/.xsession

> However whenever I call Bash through the fluxbox menu, 
> it opens up an x-term-emulator with the LANG set to en_US.UTF-8.
> 
> I've checked the fluxbox entry and it says
> "x-terminal-emulator -T "Bash" -e /bin/bash -login"
> and checked all the files from "man bash" mentioned such as
> .bashrc, .bash_profile,  /etc/profile but I can't find where the
> LANG option is set for the bash shell.
>  
> I wouldn't mind but I often open up mutt in these xterms and
> it causes weird characters to appear when scrolling up and down...
> 
> Anybody got any ideas of where to look to set the LANG variable?

grep -r "en_US\.UTF-8" /etc

should ferrit it out.

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