On Jan 14 09:43, aputerguy wrote: > > I notice that by default LANG is unset.
LANG is set by default, see /etc/profile.d/lang.*. If there are no such files, see /etc/default/profile.d/lang.*. They come with the latest base-files package. > Is it best to leave it that way or would it be better to set it to something > like LANG=en-US.UTF-8 (or even C) Not necessary. As described in the User's Guide, the default locale in the absence of a LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG variable is "C.UTF-8". Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
