>>>>> "Leo" == Leo Butler <l_butler at users.sourceforge.net> writes:
Ray> Yes, I knew about these options, but they are surely wrong if, say,
Ray> your terminal is set up to use a utf-8, and LANG=de_DE actually causes
Ray> applications to use latin1 instead of utf-8.
Leo> Ray, I just wanted to clarify that there is an easy (ish?) way to launch
Leo> a terminal with whatever locale setting you want. The command
Leo> LC_ALL=de_DE LANG=de_DE LANGUAGE=de_DE xterm -e '/bin/bash --norc --noprofile'
Leo> causes your xterm to use the desired encoding and ensures the shell uses
Leo> the same encoding.
Ah, I was using gnome-terminal. That doesn't seem to work and I get
Gtk messages about locale not supported by C library, locale
unchanged.
Ray