[PLUG] Change the locale on CentOS 4.3

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Tue May 6 18:16:16 UTC 2008


On Tue, 6 May 2008, Stuart Jansen wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 10:02 -0700, robinson-west user wrote:
>> The default seems to be en_US.UTF8 but mkisofs doesn't like that.
>> It does like en_US.cp437.  How do I change the default?  The locale
>> command only shows me the current settings.
>
> system-config-language
> or
> vi /etc/sysconfig/i18n

But don't do that. You don't want en_US.cp437 as your system language. 
Ungood things will result...

Read carefully the "CHARACTER SETS" section of the mkisofs(8) man page 
and adjust the -input-charset and -output-charset options as necessary 
-- or use "-input-charset help" to see what's built in. I'd suggest 
using iso8859-1 (or -15 for EU support) rather than cp437.

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/



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