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klew
Asked: 2010-12-01 03:29:43 +0800 CST

motd with utf-8 encoding in Ubuntu Server 10.10

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I've just changed default motd in Ubuntu (I edited /etc/update-motd.d/* files) and added some string in polish:

echo "Aby uzyskać dodatkowe informacje i przykładowe skrypty wpisz:"

but autogenerated /etc/motd is without accent characters:

Aby uzyska dodatkowe informacje i przykadowe skrypty wpisz:

So "ć" and "ł" is missing. So how to enable utf-8 encoding in motd?

ubuntu utf-8 encoding

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  1. Best Answer

    You can use the LANG environment variable to enable UTF-8 encoding. Just edit your script file (under /etc/update-motd.d/*) by adding the line:

    export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
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