I’ve just been looking through a few man pages for a few different commands including grep and ifconfig. I’ve noticed over a few pages, the content uses a strange syntax to notate what i think are quotations (back-tick followed by a single or double quote): `text' Why can’t they use ‘ or ” to open … Read more
I used to use the somewhat whimsical en_DK.UTF-8 locale when installing a new system because that would produce (roughly) the locale results I wanted, even though I am not in Denmark.
I like being able to name files and directories with an underscore prefix if it’s something I want to keep separate from other files and directories at the same level. On Windows and Mac, for example, prefixing a file with an underscore sorts it to the top, in front of files starting with an alphanumeric character.
Trying to understand the behaviour of the environment in Linux (Ubuntu 13.04 concretely), I’ve find different situations where setting envirionment variables are used or defined for/in different contexts. For example, if I check, locale, I get:
For a long period I thought the default behavior of the sort program was using ASCII order. However, when I input the following lines into sort without any arguments:
While trying to answer this question about SQL sorting, I noticed a sort order I did not expect:
On my Linux desktop I have a UTF-8 locale. When I try to search some KOI8-R encoded files with grep (ack), it fails. If I manually encode the pattern into KOI8-R and pass that as an argument, it works.
How can I make the console in CentOS 7 support Chinese?
I used localectl command. Following is the result:
I have some trouble to understand what is happening here:
I have a need to reduce the size of the locale-archive file on some of my RHEL6 systems.