On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 09:00:35 -0000, Roman Rokytskyy <rrokytskyy@...>
wrote:

>
>> The way to go seems to be to teach the JVM the default character set.
>> It appears to me that something like -Dfile.encoding=ISO-8859-1 is
>> ignored under Blackdown Java 1.4.2.
>
> According to the Java specification "file.encoding" property is
> readonly. Sun and IBM allow changing it, but it seems that Blackdown
> is stricter. :(
>
>> export LC_CTYPE=ISO-Latin-1 also does not seem
>> to have any effect (under SuSE Linux 8.1). This is no longer a topic
>> for this list, I guess, but if anyone can give me a hint...
>
> try export LANG=ISO-8859-1

Unfortunately no difference :-(

>
> Also what is the output of "locale -a" command on your Suse? You have

C
POSIX

> to have that locale installed.

I am not exactly familiar with that stuff. What means "locale installed"?


Andreas