[GRASS-dev] problems with mkftcap

[William Kyngesburye]

On May 2, 2007, at 10:41 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> I'm having a different problem with mkftcap - it's getting hung up  
> doing nothing.  One on my processors maxes out and there is no disk  
> activity for the find operations.
>
> I tried cutting out each part separately - find and fc-list - to  
> see if one of those was the problem, but no go.
>
> Further cutting points to something wrong in the sed lines - if I  
> remove those so the raw find and fc-list results are returned, it  
> finishes.
>
I found the source of my problem - in my .bash_profile, I set:

export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

if I unset both, mkftcap works.  I also have:

set dspmbyte = \"utf8\"

but I don't need to change that for mkftcap to work.

I set these (maybe naively?) so my Terminals match the default OSX  
charset of utf8.  The window display settings for Terminal.app  
default to utf8 (and I didn't need to change that either).

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