Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 3/8/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> begin quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:05:19PM >> -0800: >> > I am trying to port a program, namely "checkinstall", to my 64-bit >> > Alpha. Working remotely through ssh. >> > >> > The OS is the port to Alpha of Fedora Core 5. The compiler is >> > gcc version 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1) >> > >> [snip] >> > Can anyone think of a reason why gcc was made to do this? Or have >> > some idea of when it happened? Or suggest something better in the way >> > of a terminal emulator? >> >> What's your locale? >> >> I'd probably start by messing around with that; it's probably >> trying to be Unicode on you, 'cuz Just Working isn't nearly so fun >> as Forcing Everyone To Be Like I Want Them To. >> >> > Got it in one. I should have thought of that myself, but sometimes > the neurons misfire. > > $ export LC_ALL=C > > makes things much more readable. Of course it doesn't cure the "all > the world's a 32-bit PC" problems, but now I can concentrate on those. > > Wonder where locale is officially set. I can always change it in > $HOME/.bash_profile
I'll tell you where it is in RH-family, but don't tell SS: /etc/sysconfig/i18n Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
