Changing the default character encoding (Linux only)

Change the default encoding from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 in /etc/sysconfig/i18n.

Change the default character encoding

  1. With a text editor, open:

    /etc/sysconfig/i18n

  2. Change the default encoding from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1:

    LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-1"

  3. Save and close the file.