[SLL] LANG=C and Red Hat

[reed at reedmedia.net]

For several years, on many versions of Red Hat and Fedora, on many 
different systems, and using many different terminals, I have frequently 
received garbage (wrong characters) when receiving gcc error messages and 
reading man pages. In most cases, these systems were installed and setup 
by someone else.

My fix is usually just "export LANG=C".

It doesn't hit me all the time, but is very frequent.

I am just curious: does this happen to you a lot? And why are the defaults 
like this? Or if it is not a default setup, what is configured wrong and 
why is it so common?


  Jeremy C. Reed