Error on environment?

[Joshua Root]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Jan 14, 2009, at 10:06, Joshua Root wrote:
> 
>> Doctor Who wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
>>>
>>>> There are a couple of relevant settings in Terminal.app's preferences
>>>> which may be preferable to setting LANG manually.
>>>
>>> Such as?
>>
>> Such as the International section in the Advanced tab.
> 
> You must be on Leopard. :)
> 
> On my Tiger system I have in Terminal's Inspector window a Display
> section where I can set the Character Set Encoding (and I have it set to
> Unicode UTF-8). I understood that I must then set the LANG variable to
> correspond to this encoding, so I set LANG to en_US.UTF-8.
> 
> Maybe Leopard does this automatically?

Yes, on Leopard there's a checkbox "Set LANG environment variable on
startup" which is checked by default.

- Josh