On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 08:40:46 -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Sat, 26 Oct 2002 02:40:05AM -0400, sean finney insinuated: > > maybe it's a dumb question, but do you have $LANG set appropriately for > > your shell? > > i believe so ... it's set to en, and changing it to en_US doesn't appear > to make a difference.
LANG doesn't influence which characters the system considers printable. LC_CTYPE (e.g. "en_US.ISO8859-1") does. HTH, Ray -- "When you are finished spreading joy on Christmas Eve, come and kick back with me and Erwin for a while. [...] We'll provide the cocoa and cookies, and we'll even teach you how to play Quake." From the Dust Puppy's letter to Santa Claus. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]