On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:44:08AM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: > I've just stumbled into this thread, and have a tangental question. If I > want to be able to see other characters (ie. German umlauts, etc.) what > needs to be done here?
Where do you need to see them? Provided that your normal locale has a compatible character set (English and German locales often do, for instance), then you should be able to see them already. You may need some special settings: for instance, 'export LESSCHARSET=latin1' will make less display German umlauts correctly. Failing that, just try setting your locale to that of the country in question (using 'export LC_ALL=de_DE' or whatever) and seeing what happens. If you have specific problems, post them here. > I was able to do the test you've outlined above, and I got all the same > results as you did. Now what? Is this supposed to be set in my: > .bash_profile > or where? testlocale is just a spurious thing I made up on the spot, because sometimes it's difficult to tell whether a locale is working at all. Don't worry about it. locale(1) might be a more useful tool. In your .bash_profile or .bashrc or whatever, you need to set your locale variables appropriately. Perl's documentation (in the perllocale(1) man page) is quite a useful reference. > Could you please enlighten me as to the syntax of the file in > question? They're just shell scripts. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]