Re: LANG in /etc/environment and in .bashrc

From: Andreas Janssen (andreas.janssen_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 07/30/03

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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:27:00 +0200

    Hello

    Robin Gerard (<robin.jag@free.fr>) wrote:

    > I would like to understand why, when I set LANG to C, in
    > /etc/environment and LANG to fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 in my .bashrc, after the
    > login, I can't write te letters with accents.

    Are you talking about a login shell? .bashrc is used for non-login
    shells. .bash_profile is used for login shells. Check if your
    .bash_profile is set to include your .bashrc.

    best regards
            Andreas Janssen 

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