On 26/12/2018 10.01, Felix Miata wrote:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2018-12-26 08:57 (UTC+0100):
Felix Miata wrote:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2018-12-26 03:54 (UTC+0100):
/etc/sysconfig/language
## Type: string(ctype) ## Default: ctype # # This defines if the user "root" should use the locale settings # which are defined here. # Value "ctype" means that root uses just LC_CTYPE. # ROOT_USES_LANG="ctype"
I never change this.
I don't either, and since both PCs are using the same /etc/sysconfig/language file, with that same specification, what is this supposed to be telling me, and particularly, with regard to Konsole output?
(What, if anything as a practical matter, makes en_US and en_US.UTF-8 differ I don't know either, but I'd really rather not see displayed CJK and other alphabets' characters I don't read.)
Non UTF-8 charset, go back more than a decade.
Plain en_US is by definition non-UTF-8? I thought it was an alias to something else that may or may not be UTF-8 equivalent? Box drawing characters have been available on PCs for more than three decades.
There is no /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US/ directory, so beware. en_US.UTF-8 might be wrong. There is "/usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8", lowercase. They exist en_US, en_US.iso885915, and en_US.utf8, and all three are different actual directories, not links: en_US: -rw-r--r-- 73 root root 237196 Dec 5 12:14 LC_CTYPE en_US.utf8 -rw-r--r-- 199 root root 278308 Dec 5 12:14 LC_CTYPE en_US.iso885915 -rw-r--r-- 26 root root 237448 Dec 5 12:14 LC_CTYPE
Box drawing characters have been available on PCs for more than three decades.
In which charset? Because 8 bit charset have different interpretations of what goes above code 127. You can not use that today - except that some people do. TomTom, for instance :-/ Yes, the IBM-PC had them, but this is Linux, inheriting from Unix, so not IBM-PC charset here. Then there are many variants: Spain has one, France has another... -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)