Re: Danish Characters in bash under FreeBSD 4.3-BETA

From: Jesper Skriver (none@jesper--skriver.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk)
Date: Tue 17 Apr 2001 - 21:56:57 CEST


Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:56:57 +0200
From: Jesper Skriver <none@jesper--skriver.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk>
To: bsd-dk@BSD-Dk.dk
Subject: Re: Danish Characters in bash under FreeBSD 4.3-BETA

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:46:39PM +0200, Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 06:42:09PM +0200, Jesper Skriver wrote:
> > setenv LANG da_DK.ISO_8859-1
> > setenv LC_CTYPE da_DK.ISO_8859-1
> > setenv MM_CHARSET ISO-8859-1
>
> Eh? :-)
>
> In bash(/sh) that'd be:
>
> LANG=da_DK.ISO_8859-1;export LANG
> LC_CTYPE=da_DK.ISO_8859-1;export LC_CTYPE
> MM_CHARSET=ISO-8859-1;export MM_CHARSET

Well, set the env. variables, have never used bash ...

> "LANG" is a "catch-all" for "LC_*", causing "LC_CTYPE" to be
> somewhat redundant here.
> See setlocale(3) and bash(1).

Learned something today too ...

/Jesper

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