Re: Screwball characters
On Wednesday 27 October at 4:35pm, Alain Bench had this to say:
> > LANG=POSIX
>
> Bad: All categories are default unset, which roughly means US-Ascii
> charset. Better export LANG to a value from "locale --all-locales"
> suitable for your language, country, and terminal's charset.
This is the kind of underlying environment variable stuff that I don't
get. What's the best place to understand how I should be setting
locales to make things work all smooth-like?
>
> > [$charset] It's currently set to 8859-1.
>
> Gentoo, half-recent Glibc? Drop $charset declaration.
howdja guess? $charset is dropped, but I haven't noticed any changes
(which I guess is a Good Thing...)
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