On 2007-10-14, Damjan <gdamjan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> But adding this to ~./bashrc had little effect on Terminal and killed
>> vim fairly badly. Am I missing something obvious here?
>
> Your X session starts and never reads ~/.bashrc .. so that wouldn't work.
> The correct place for per-user X session environment would be ~/.xprofile
> (which could source .bashrc)

So the change I made in /etc/profile.d/lang.sh would actually be a
_global_ setting for all users? Not so much of a problem on this
single user machine but something I will keep in mind for the future.

So you don't have to read back the change was from:

export LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1

to

export LANG=enUS.UTF-8

The only problem I have had is a few borked copyright and punctuation
marks in man pages but I believe there is a fix for this by specifying
non-utf-8 encoding for man pages only: not sure how to do this.

Andrew


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