Re: change local definitions
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:22 AM, David Sastre Medina
<d.sastre.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 08:55:47AM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Ivo Daniel Alves
>> <ivodaniel.alves@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm using Amanda on SL 6.2 to backup several computers including windows
>> > workstations.
>> >
>> > When I do the backups from windows clients, I get some errors when
>> > compressing with zip because of special chars that like "ç" "á", or" ã", for
>> > example (European portuguese: PT_pt).
>> > I think this happens because SL is using UFT8 by default. Can I change it
>> > to iso88591? How? Can I use both "char" settings?
>> > In the next lines de output of "locale" and "locale -a"
>> >
>> > [ivo@mega ~]$ locale
>> > LANG=pt_PT.utf8
>> > LC_CTYPE="pt_PT.utf8"
>> > LC_NUMERIC="pt_PT.utf8"
>> > LC_TIME="pt_PT.utf8"
>> > LC_COLLATE="pt_PT.utf8"
>> > LC_MONETARY="pt_PT.utf8"
>> > LC_MESSAGES="pt_PT.utf8"
>> > LC_PAPER="pt_PT.utf8"
>> > LC_NAME="pt_PT.utf8"
>> > LC_ADDRESS="pt_PT.utf8"
>> > LC_TELEPHONE="pt_PT.utf8"
>> > LC_MEASUREMENT="pt_PT.utf8"
>> > LC_IDENTIFICATION="pt_PT.utf8"
>> > LC_ALL=
>>
>> You can use "/etc/sysconfig/i18n".
>
> ...if you are on RHEL or CentOS or Fedora.
> Debian way would be dpkg-reconfigure locales.
>
> Also, UTF-8 should give you wider coverage than latin-1, IIRC.
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