David Nettles
Can I install SuSE 8.2 to use UTF8 for everything? I have a SuSE 9.1 environment where everything is UTF8, but I have some SuSE 8.2 environments that I need to install. I really want them to particpate using UTF8 for filenames and text content (so that files wont have to be converted going from machine to machine).
Is this doable?
Yes. SuSE 8.2 already works fine for UTF-8. Compared to newer
SuSE releases it has a few more bugs in an UTF-8 environment
but it is mostly OK.
Only the default after an installation is not UTF-8 for SuSE 8.2.
You just have to change the default system locale manually
after the installation. Just edit /etc/sysconfig/language and
run SuSEconfig afterwards.
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Mike FABIAN