[1.7] Accented characters don't work

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Sun Nov 29 06:46:00 GMT 2009


lemkemch@t-online.de wrote:
> But I still like an answer to this:
> 
>> But how do I get back a pure C locale?  I also
>> want ls -l to output the old standard date format.  So
>> setenv LANG C.what?  C.ISO-8859-15 is kind of nice (the accented
>> chars display fine) but ls then shows the iso-type date format.

you want the following (yes, hit return in the middle of the quoted
portion):

export TIME_STYLE='+%b %d %H:%M
%b %d  %Y'

--
Chuck

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