On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 10:31:54AM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > One thing that irritates me is that I'll copy something from a site in ff > and paste it into webmail (squirrel/ensign, if that matters); then, in the > evening, when I want to forward it to one or more of my lists, using > t-bird, I have to clean it up *all* the time: 2-3 characters replacing ",' > and -. I can't seem to find anything in either the webmail options (which > I have set to plain text), or kde (thinking of the buffer it's held in), > to affect this. I'm googling, but haven't seen what the effect of changing > the kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.conf from en_US.UTF-8 to, say, en_US, > or maybe even, if that's an option, ASCII.... > > Anyone know? > > mark, almost ready to install and play with a friend from a techie > mailing > list's email tool, running on top of mutt.... Try export LANG=C That cuts out a lot of the crap, and restores, among other things, a sane collating order. (A-Z collate before a-z, not case-blind.) That should be in root's profile, at the very least. Dave -- You can make a lovely hat out of previously-used aluminum foil. Recycled glass bottles can be made into roads, tiles, even surfboards. Film canisters can be reused to store nails, screws, buttons and pins. -- wisdom of teh goog