>>>>> "Leo" == Leo Butler <l_butler at users.sourceforge.net> writes:
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Leo> From: Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com>
Leo> Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 09:18:09 -0700
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Leo> Being illiterate, I can't really say. On my Ubuntu machine, if I
Leo> can't seem to start easily a new terminal in anything other than
Leo> utf-8. On my Mac, I can create a new terminal with latin1, but then
Leo> LANG is set to en_US.ISO8859-1.
Leo> The behaviour on ubuntu is likely due to your shell reading the
Leo> system-wide and/or personal rc file.
Leo> The following will launch a new xterm with whatever locale settings you want:
Leo> LC_ALL=de_DE LANG=de_DE LANGUAGE=de_DE xterm -e '/bin/bash --norc --noprofile'
Leo> And this starts a bash sub-shell in your current terminal:
Leo> LC_ALL=de_DE LANG=de_DE LANGUAGE=de_DE /bin/bash --norc --noprofile
Leo> Of course, you can export these environment variables in your current
Leo> shell, too.
Yes, I knew about these options, but they are surely wrong if, say,
your terminal is set up to use a utf-8, and LANG=de_DE actually causes
applications to use latin1 instead of utf-8.
Ray