On 23:12 02 Sep 2003, Ivo Tijhaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I installed a few servers with red hat 9.0 all with the same packages only
| on different hardware.
| I have a strange problem some programs (mc) don't convert the line end
| (carriege return) in text or binairie files.
| mc shows on every line at the end ^M. When i look the files in binair mode
| there is no ^M. Until i save a file with mc or some other it will save the
| ^M. I downgraded mc to the version from red hat 8.0. This solves the problem
| for know. I only think it isn't in mc because some friends installed the
| same os with different packages and don't have this issue. Has somebody any
| idea?
I think you're being bitten but the UTF support in RH8 and 9. By using
UTF-8 encoding, RH8/9 can present Unicode output, which lets one present
characters for all locales. However, plenty of apps expect the old 8-bit
character sets and do not handle the multibyte encodings in UTF-8.
The workaround is to request the C locale:
export LC_ALL=C
That should at least make these apps behave as they did before.
Cheers,
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