Setting locale?

[Stokstaartje]

First of all, I might be looking for the wrong solution...

When ripping cd's with K3b, sometimes the names of the artist/songs come out kind of garbled, e.g. Björk becomes Bjvrk. That in itself is not a big problem. But when trying to move/delete these files/directories the problems arise as these files are not found by the name shown on the screen.

rm -r Bjvrk
no such file or directory

I suspect that this all starts with not having the right locale, otherwise the right name would have shown? Correct or not?

And if correct, is it a simple matter of setting the correct locale?

And another if, if that is the case, how do I set the right locale?

[Stokstaartje]

Even more guessing:

Maybe it is not the locale, because I prefer having the english language as is. But maybe it is the character encoding: Do I need unicode support? utf-8? And how should I go about getting that installed?

[kukibl]

Well, if you want to keep US locale, but include utf-8 support do next:

-edit as root /etc/profile.d/lang.sh with your favourite editor

-comment this line with # sign

Code:

export LANG=en_US

-uncomment this line (a little below):

Code:

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

That should solve problem for you.

Else, you can set up locale for your language. Just type locale -a command, find line that suites your language and put it in edited file by replacing current setting. In example, for my language (Serbian) I would replace export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 with export LANG=sr_CS.utf8.

[MarkGrieveson]

Thanks.  I was looking for how the locale could be changed.