Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This one time, at band camp, Jorge Santos said: > > Hello, when I do a 'su -' to root I get '?' instead of accented > > characters when doing, for example an 'ls'. This only happens with > > 'su -', not with regular logins nor with 'su' (without the '-'), it > > also appear to be independent of the shell used and the terminal > > emulator used (it also happens in the console). > > > > Any ideas why this may be? > > Presumably you have locale settings in your .bashrc, or .bash_profile. > When you su (no -), you get a root shell that inherits the environment > that spawned it, so your $PATH and environment stay the same. > > When you su - root, you get a brand new root shell, that only sources > .profile and others in the /root directory. I assume root doesn't have > those same locale settings. >
That's right, I was forgetting to export the LANG variable so everything was using the POSIX locale. Thanks a lot! jorge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
