[TriLUG] redhat 8 terminal session character weirdness

[Sinner from the Prairy]

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 16:49, H. Wade Minter wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Doug Taggart wrote:
 
> > I have one odd thing happening, I'm fairly sure someone on this list
> > will be able to help.
> > When I'm on the box remotely on a ms-win machine via securecrt things
> > like man pages display
> >
> > ‐
> > instead of
> > - characters, and other character replacement oddities.
 
> Try setting the variable LANG=c - I've noticed some weirdness with the
> "internationalized" character set Red Hat 8 uses by default, too.

This even solves the inhability to install/uninstall software on RHL 8.0
if your LANG is not C / en_US
 
And I've read that even recompiling the kernel fails if you have a
localized setting.

So much for UTF-8



Salut,
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