Hi, I've seen this thrown around a few forums, but Im yet to get a definitive answer. Sadly, I'll own up to my lack of knowledge surrounding UTF-8. I know the theory, but somewhat lost on the practice!
Basically, im getting strange characters in some applications when I try to type a uk pound symbol. I can type it at the command line okay, but trying it in 'vi' or 'nano' produces strange characters. On my RHEL4.4 box, shell/vi/nano works fine, and /etc/sysconfig/i18n contains: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" SUPPORTED="en_GB.UTF-8:en_GB:en:en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" On my RHEL5 box, vi/nano breaks with the default /etc/sysconfig/il8n: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG="en_US.UTF-8" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" However, after some trawling, I stumbled across en_GB.iso885915. If I type "export LANG="en_GB.iso885915" (or use it in il8n config file), then everything works. However, Im not sure on the consequences of this, so I thought I would (hopefully) find out from someone who knows more about UTF-8 and character sets in general. At first I thought maybe vi/nano had been built without UTF-8 support, but: # nano -V GNU nano version 1.3.12 (compiled 12:56:04, Jul 12 2006) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.nano-editor.org/ Compiled options: --enable-color --enable-extra --enable-multibuffer --enable-nanorc --enable-utf8 So, I've kind of solved the problem, but I'd be interested to hear if someone could shine some light on the specifics of the cause. Or, whether this will cause me headaches in the future! Thanks, Bryan _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
