From: Simon Ruderich Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:24:07 +0000 (+0200) Subject: xinitrc: Set LANG in xinitrc to prevent problems on some systems. X-Git-Url: https://ruderich.org/simon/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b69168d78941ffb5e5a16504a72cb1fa0a2d69ab;p=config%2Fdotfiles.git xinitrc: Set LANG in xinitrc to prevent problems on some systems. --- diff --git a/xinitrc b/xinitrc index 4e5f7bb..e434cba 100755 --- a/xinitrc +++ b/xinitrc @@ -18,6 +18,15 @@ # along with this program. If not, see . +# Some systems don't set the LANG environment variable when starting xinitrc, +# this causes problems for rxvt-unicode-256color which fails to display UTF-8 +# characters correctly when LANG is missing and for notify.py which also needs +# LANG set (for Python's decode() function). Therefore set it here, might be +# overwritten by shell setup scripts. +LANG=en_US.UTF-8 +export LANG + + # Start ssh-agent if we have private keys, thanks to # http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib/scripts/xinitrc (read on 2011-06-19). if test -x /usr/bin/ssh-agent && test -f "$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa"; then