How to set the locale environment variables in order to use encoding: iso8859-1?

From: Villén Pizarro, Julia (jvillen@indra.es)
Date: Thu Apr 18 2002 - 09:36:02 EDT


Hi:

I'm accessing a remote spanish Oracle database, with special spanish
characters. The problem is that I don't get this characters right.

I know it has something to do with locale command and LANG and LC_CTYPE
variable, but I'm not sure how to change its values.

I've tried
# LANG=es_ES
# export LANG

and this works as root but I need to do it as a different user.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Julia

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