[SLL] LANG=C and Red Hat

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 07:04:59 -0600 (CST)
reed at reedmedia.net wrote:

> 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?

The default on most recentish RH / Fedora systems is to default to a
UTF-8 lang set.  This is so that non-english chars can be displayed.

I largely never run into issues because all the terminal emulators I
use support UTF8, perhaps you're using software that does not support
UTF8.  LANG=C is rather hostile to non-English speaking folks.

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