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Re: [Bigsister-general] UTF-8 problem fix


On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 09:27 -0800, Herb Rubin wrote:
> vi /etc/sysconfig/i18n
[...]
> Somebody please put this in the FAQ documentation.

Thanks for the hint. It already went through the list a few times.

To the critics: Yes, this is a global change and you can keep it local
to Big Sister by using environment variables (/etc/init.d/bigsister
*and* profile of the Big Sister user). The problem is that changing the
character encoding on your system has other effects than only Perl
actually working again.

On the other hand, the early RedHat systems with UTF-8 enabled by
default are already broken ... The UTF-8 problem is not at all
restricted to Big Sister. So one might argue that it is a good idea
anyway, to revert to some ISO-8859-Encoding (as you do when applying
the change you suggested) - at least if you are trying to use Perl
for other things than running Big Sister, too.

Best regards,
Tom

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