[GRASS-dev] problems with mkftcap

[William Kyngesburye]

Sorry, responding to myself again...

On May 2, 2007, at 2:11 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> 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).
>
After trying various combinations of these settings, it appears I  
don't need these any more.  They are probably leftovers in  
my .bash_profile from the early OSX days when Terminal didn't handle  
UTF8 directly very well.  It looks like the window setting takes care  
of this now.

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