Re: [vile] utf-8 newbie

[Paul Fox]

chris wrote:
 > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 05:15:32PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
 > > so i tracked this down to my environment (not too surprising).  i've
 > > set "export LC_ALL=C" in my .profile for some time, in order to get
 > > traditional sort ordering for ls.  this LC_ALL=C tells vile i can't/don't
 > > do wide chars.  changing to this seems to work for now:
 > >     unset LC_ALL
 > >     export LC_COLLATE=C
 > > 
 > This is exactly what I do for the same reason (wanting the traditional
 > sort order for ls).  I just have:-
 > 
 >     export LC_COLLATE=C
 >     export LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8

i think i tried that, but...   ah.  i hadn't fully logged out, or something.
yes, those two settings are sufficient.

paul
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