Change ISO to UTF?

0zMe · 11-11-2009, 01:28 PM

Hello,

I think I have to change my character set in order to use Turkish characters.

If I do echo $LANG in konsole it's en_US.

I use Slackware 13.0 in English but I need a character set for Turkish.

Which set do I need?
How do I change it?

Many thanks
0zMe

sahko · 11-11-2009, 02:09 PM

edit /etc/profile.d/lang.sh to fit your needs if you want to change that globally

0zMe · 11-11-2009, 03:24 PM

thanks sahko.

edited the line with en_US.UTF-8

Could this cause any errors on my system? Has utf-8 any disadvantages?

Squall90 · 11-12-2009, 10:04 AM

You can see the available locales with

Code:

$ locale -a

I cannot find en_US.UTF-8. I only find en_US.utf8. If it doesn't work, you should try to change.

I used utf8 so far and I don't experienced any problems. There were only a few C programs from school which didn't run until I rewrote it. They were programed and tested under Windows.