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Old 09-26-2009
Bash encoding, how to change
Hey guys.
The problem is :
i need to change encoding (to be more precise UTF-8) or change the language . You see , when i log in , manuals are shown in 'Some symbols' (being written in 'Not English') and its very confusing to work. Please Help Smilie
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Old 09-26-2009
there is likely a terminal application setting for changing the encoding of the display. you likely don't need to change the encoding of the unix env.

what's your os/platform/terminal app?
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Old 09-26-2009
Even better show the output of
Code:
locale

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Old 09-27-2009
hmmmmm.... locale shows smth like that:
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
.... everythiing is set to ru_RU.UTF-8

well im logging through SSH with a help of Cygwin ( Smilie ) and .... how to show os/platform/ terminal app? .... uname?
may be there is smth to do with Cygwin.....
 
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