"plus before [] ignored" msg's while booting: normal?

mike_bio · 07-13-2005, 03:55 PM

Hi to all,

Newbie here. I've installed Red Hat 9 for two weeks now and I'm in the proccess of tweaking it. I have the following question:
while booting, among other messages, I get a big list of lines saying "plus before xxxx ignored", where xxx is various words I do not understand (ccedila, Ccedila, igrave, Igrave, etc). I have no problems with the os, but it seems odd and I'm just wondering what do they mean and if they can be avoided.

Thanks in advance.

Mara · 07-13-2005, 04:21 PM

cedila, igrave and such things are (in short) names of different symbols used in many languages under or over letters. Like in ź or ó and so on. The messages you get probably mean that there's something wrong with encoding. Which one do you have after start? It's easiest to check using
echo $LANG
What's the answer?

Edit: Example characters should now look OK.