[svlug] UTF-8 (was Acrobat 5)

[Jeffrey Siegal]

Walt Reed wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 05:46:01AM -0600, Karl Larsen said:
> 
>>On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Bhavesh Patel wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Check the LANG variable in /etc/sysconfig/i18n :
>>>$ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n
>>># LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
>>>LANG="en_US"
>>
>>	As root using joe I changed i18n to read LANG="en_US" and after 
>>doing the same to my login it works fine. Thanks Bhavesh for your 
>>insight on where to find the proper sysconfig file.
> 
> 
> I have noticed that the language setting of en_US.UTF-8 seems to cause
> other problems such as running man when sshed into a machine with this
> setting.
> 
> I have been changing it back to plain en_US for a while now... I
> normally use debian but one of my clients wanted RedHat.
> 
> Any comments on advantages of UTF-8 any why anyone would want to use it?

Ability to handle languages with multibyte characters.