I know of no restrictions on a unix-like system that would interfere with choosing any arbitrary charset. Your post doesn't actually describe what problem you observed after setting LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-1.
Michael B Allen wrote: > No one has an answer for this? > > On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:09:42 -0400 > Michael B Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a module that calls a number of libraries that need to run under >> a locale other than 'C'. >> >> What are Apache's limitations with respect to the locale it runs under? I >> see that setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in Apache's environment works but >> LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 does not. >> >> I understand that allowing the server to run in an arbitrary locale >> is hard to support but certainly there must be support for i18n text >> processing. Where is the line drawn? >> >> Ideally I would like the administrator to be able to choose a locale >> (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) but if I can only do UTF-8 technically I >> would be satisfied. > >
