[tlug] Re: UTF-8 Terminal Emulators?

[Ryan Shaw <ryan.shaw@example.com>]

Mike Fabian wrote:

> To be able to switch locales easily, you can do one of the following
> 
>    - don't set up your terminals to behave as login shells.
> 
>    - don't put any code to change LANG or LC_ variables
>      at all into .profile, .bash_login etc.
>
> <snip>
> 
> Setting LANG or LC_ variables in profiles gets in the way too easily
> in my opinion if one wants to switch often, therefore I don't do it. 

Thanks for the advice. I agree that your way is the most flexible.
So I am removing all locale setting from my profiles. This was a
habit I picked up from the Debian set-language-env tool, but I see
now that I was led astray. :^)

Ryan