> But: > >setenv LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8 > >env LC_ALL=it echo > gioved�, 25 ottobre 2001, 11:45:24 EDT > > I could not understand why I get the display of the letter � in the > en_US.UTF-8 Locale. My understanding was that the date command was > generating the message in the Italian locale (default encoding iso-8859-1) > and as a result � would be encoded as xEC. The display should be done in > the > en_US.UTF-8 Locale and be an invalid byte sequence.
I think you're making an improper assumption about the fact that your *terminal* is in UTF-8 and would then complain. Unless your terminal has explicit support for UTF-8 I do not think it will validate things. And it apparently has not been started from a process that was already using UTF-8, since you're issuing your setenv LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8 at the prompt. This is only affecting subsequent commands (unless overridden, of course, as in your next call), not the running process. YA PS: not to mention zsh(1) would be a better shell ;-) <just teasing>
