Re: Importing text files with umlauts and sharp-s's



  On Wed, 22 May 2002 20:21:17 -0400 (EDT), Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu> wrote:

Try this:

1. As root

cd /usr/share/i18n
localedef -c -i en_US -f ISO-8859-1 en_US

2. In your login file (e.g. ~/.profile) set

LANG=en_US.iso88591
LC_ALL=

Logout and log back in again.

Aha, that works beautifully.  Thanks very much.

Alexandra



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