On 5/11/2011 12:54 PM, Dale wrote: > root@fireball / # locale -a > C > POSIX > en_US > en_US.iso88591 > en_US.utf8
So you have three locales installed (C and POSIX are internal and always present) that are the same language and region with different character sets. You probably don't need to do this anymore, since most every modern application can handle UTF-8 character data and, even if it can't, UTF-8 data looks identical to US-ASCII data for most English language text. > root@fireball / # locale > LANG= > LC_CTYPE="POSIX" > LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" > LC_TIME="POSIX" > LC_COLLATE="POSIX" > LC_MONETARY="POSIX" > LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" > LC_PAPER="POSIX" > LC_NAME="POSIX" > LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" > LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" > LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" > LC_ALL= > root@fireball / # This means that your UTF-8 setup is clearly *not* working :) Your locale is not being set anywhere, it's using the glibc default of POSIX. POSIX is approximately equal to en_US as far as date/time, sorting, etc. but lacks most of the numeric formatting (no currency symbol, no thousands separator, etc). It's also using the default US-ASCII character set. --Mike
