Here's a message from Jason that was auto-discarded by the list software. It had some good info.
---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 17:16:54 -0600 From: Jason kg4wsv To: Chip Griffin Cc: xastir@xastir.org Subject: Re: [Xastir] GDAL, db42, etc (Mac & Leopard) On Nov 4, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Chip Griffin wrote: > with "C" it works. Why is that? C is posix standard 7 bit ASCII, IIRC. en_US is 8 bit US English. > I think the FAQ needs updating. The FAQ says to change it to > "en_US" but as mentioned that doesn't work (at least not on a Mac > OS X (10.5) system. This is evidently new with Leopard. I've been running Mac OS X since the first public beta and it's never mattered before. You're breaking new ground for the rest of us. (: -Jason kg4wsv ---------------------------------------------------- You've exhausted my knowledge of the matter. We investigated the problem originally when some of the Linux distributions changed the LANG setting and came up with "C" and "en_US" at the time. I don't know why one of them doesn't work with Leopard. I usually type "C" with Linux 'cuz it's easier to type, but both work for me. The default on OpenSuSE-10.3 is "en_US.UTF-8". Also, for testing purposes you don't have to edit .profile (or other files for other shells). You can simply set the variable in that shell and export it, then that shell and subshells of it will get the new environment variable setting. It won't affect any other shells on our system. For the BASH shell it's "export LANG=C" -- Curt, WE7U: <www.eskimo.com/~archer/> XASTIR: <www.xastir.org> "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
