setting default encoding

edgjerp · 05-07-2007, 10:48 AM

I just changed from mandriva to kubuntu, and have some problems with encoding. I read my mail on a remote server, using ssh. where can I set that I want ISO8859-1 as character encoding? every time I log in, I have to change this in konsole settings. is there a place I can change this globally?

osor · 05-07-2007, 11:35 AM

Have you tried “sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales”

edgjerp · 05-08-2007, 12:45 AM

This is close to the right approach, but I have no interactivity, I just see this:

Code:

Generating locales...
  en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_DK.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_IN.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_PH.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.

what do I need to do to be able to change settings?

edgjerp · 05-08-2007, 01:57 AM

Code:

 LANG="ISO8859-1"

to /etc/environment, will that fix things?
I would either add this, or possibly replace the three occurrences of LANG="en_US.UTF-8" in the file

osor · 05-08-2007, 10:56 AM

I’m sorry, somehow I thought the previous command would be interactive…

Editing /etc/environment is a good idea too. If possible, edit not only “LANG”, but also any variable that starts with “LC_” (if and only if such a variable exists) — e.g., LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LC_ALL. Notice that these effects will not be instantaneous. If you want to run under a different locale immediately, try this in a shell:

Code:

$ LANG="ISO8859-1" LC_ALL="ISO8859-1" my_program

edgjerp · 05-08-2007, 04:11 PM

all my environment file contained, was 3 copies of the line with UTF8, and the settings for PATH.
What will I need to do to force my system to reread (and act upon) the new settings globally?