Bug 62846

Summary: ending ^G in i18n breaks all shell stuff
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Chris Ricker <chris.ricker>
Component: locale_configAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
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Description Chris Ricker 2002-04-06 05:53:18 UTC 
By default, the system created an /etc/sysconfig/i18n that looked like:

LANG="en_US.iso885915"
SUPPORTED="en_US.iso885915:en_US:en"
SYSFONT="lat0-sun16"
SYSFONTACM="iso15"

Since the .iso885915 stuff broke a lot of things, I used locale_config to switch
to en_US.  The resulting /etc/i18n file ended with a "^G", which subsequently
broke essentially all shell actions.  Removing the ^G fixed the problems.

There's a fairly similar bug filed against rh7.2, though in that one, ^Y was the
trailing character....
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-04-09 19:41:51 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62844 ***
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-04-09 19:42:21 UTC 
Whoops, never mind. Need to read the *whole* bug.
Comment 3 Owen Taylor 2002-04-10 16:41:19 UTC 
Fixed in CVS/0.3.4, package still needs to be moved to dist-7.3