* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: <SNIP> > testlocale is just a spurious thing I made up on the spot, because > sometimes it's difficult to tell whether a locale is working at all. > Don't worry about it. locale(1) might be a more useful tool.
Yeah, I got that. It was just useful to build and use to verify my settings. I was trying to get my environment set up so that I could get these characters available in all my apps, including my beloved mutt. I'm growing weary of things like "?", "/234" or something in place of meaningful chars. > In your .bash_profile or .bashrc or whatever, you need to set your > locale variables appropriately. Perl's documentation (in the > perllocale(1) man page) is quite a useful reference. > > > Could you please enlighten me as to the syntax of the file in > > question? > > They're just shell scripts. Yes, but I haven't got it working. I'm just learning shell scripting, so I'd like to see a snippet of someone's .bashrc or .bash_profile, as appropriate. My attempts (which I've since removed) to date haven't had much of a useful effect. I was hoping to have proper 8-bit charset support available instead of the 7-bit this "C" set is supposed to give. This other charset is ISO-8859-1, correct? Or am I misunderstanding the way this works? TIA, Mike Pfleger There's seventy brilliant people on earth. Where are they hiding? "Yashar" -Cabaret Voltaire (off of "2x45")
