Wrong default encoding on Linux - solved  
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Bernd Eggink





PostPosted: 2003-10-3 16:54:00 Top

java-programmer, Wrong default encoding on Linux - solved Mac <email***@***.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:22:46 +0000, Bernd Eggink wrote:

>> I installed j2sdk1.4.2_01 on several Linux systems running SuSE 8.2.
>> Normally the default file encoding is correctly set to "ISO-8859-1".
>> On one system, however, the installation script assigns the value
>> "ANSI_X3.4-1968" to this property, which causes nasty problems with
>> german umlauts. I can't see any essential differences between this
>> system and the others, although I guess there must be some. Any ideas
>> what that could be?

> This may be more of a linux question than a java question. Maybe that one
> machine has different locale settings or something, and the jdk picks up on
> that either during the installation or at run time.

I found it at last. A library was missing (package 'glibc-locale').
Everything is OK now.

Bernd

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