Re: Setting locale of shell?

• Subject: Re: Setting locale of shell?
• From: Andre-John Mas <email@hidden>
• Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:13:40 -0500
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On 22-Dec-2009, at 19:22, Andre-John Mas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was listing some files, with non-latin based names, in the terminal and saw that they were displaying as "??????". Typing "locale" I see it is defined as follows:
>
> LANG=
> LC_COLLATE="C"
> LC_CTYPE="C"
> LC_MESSAGES="C"
> LC_MONETARY="C"
> LC_NUMERIC="C"
> LC_TIME="C"
> LC_ALL=
>
> I would like to be able to use the "en_US.UTF-8" locale, but I have no idea to make it default to this. Can anyone elaborate?

A bit more hunting revealed all I needed to do was:

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

I have added that to my .profile, so all should be well.

André-John

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