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[ILUG] Shell display issues, possibly locale.

[ILUG] Shell display issues, possibly locale.

Cathal A. Ferris pio at skynet.ie
Tue Oct 17 15:13:47 IST 2006


On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Lars Hecking wrote:
> I have seen funny behaviour of ncurses based management utils on RHEL2/3
> as well, and the cure was to export LANG=C. YMMV.

Bingo. Instant readability.



>
>> I've tried finding out where the relevant setting is changed, but having
>> some difficulty.
>
> Try /root/{.bash_profile,.bashrc}.
>
Unfortunately neither of wich exist, also it exists in the user profiles 
too.

Time to make LANG=C worldwide, pending further testing

Cheers!

Cathal



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