Support for Nordic Characters on Red Hat [Enterprise Linux AS release 4]

charlov · 07-08-2010, 03:18 AM

Hey,

On the above server, I am facing the following:
1- DB server installed on Redhat is supporting Nordic Characters
2- However the OS is not supporting Nordic Characters: If I create a text file with the following characters: ö-ß-ä-Ü, send it to the server through WinSCP, and then VI the text file, these characters will show as question marks and funny characters.

So I am assuming there is an update to support Nordic characters. Right?
What should I do?
Help!

XXLRay · 07-18-2010, 08:03 AM

Perhaps it is sufficient to change your LANG environment variable.
Edit your .bash_profile:

Code:

vi ~/.bash_profile

Insert code for new environment variable:

Code:

export LANG=de_DE@euro

Reload you .bash_profile:

Code:

source ~/.bash_profile

This will change the environment variable to special german characters for each user with the above entry in his ~/.bash_profile. You can check whether the settings have been overtaken by echoing your LANG variabe:

Code:

$ echo $LANG
de_DE@euro

You may also change this variable just for single commands if you want the rest of the system to keep the old LANG variable as setting. Just add the variable in front of the command for example:

Code:

LANG=de_DE@euro vi anytextfile