Re: Character encoding at the prompt

From: David Starner (dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org)
Date: Thu Oct 25 2001 - 13:47:33 EDT


On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:34:12PM -0400, Richard, Francois M wrote:
> I could not understand why I get the display of the letter ì 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 ì would be encoded as xEC. The display should be done in the
> en_US.UTF-8 Locale and be an invalid byte sequence.

Changing LC_ALL doesn't change the console encoding; you'll have to
change that some other way. (On Linux, it'd be unicode_start.)

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