Change between UTF-8 and ISO-8859 without rebooting?
I want to be able to change between UTF-8 and ISO-8859 without rebooting or restarting X, how can I do that?
I've tried to just export LANG but that doesn't do it. |
In Debian I use
Code:
sudo env LANG=<whatever> |
The problem is the environment is read in during a programs start up routine so if you change the environment it will only effect applications that start after that point.
Applications that are already running will have no way of knowing that it has changed unless they have a way of rereading the environment. |
Sorry to be slightly off topic, but out of curiosity where does the need of setting up LANG to ISO-8859-<suffix> comes from nowadays?
If you want to import/export files using such encoding, you can use iconv to make the trans coding. |
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Someone could maybe give you more hints if you say specifically for which application(s)/file(s) you want to change the character encoding. |
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