Editing a file in CP866 encoding

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:03 +0300, Michael Dukelsky wrote:

>  But why can't I use LANG=ru_RU.CP866? I thought that
>  with this locale it would be possible to see files in CP866 encoding
>  without pressing Alt-e.

You can use it as long as you know what you're doing. But since you came
up with such a question I assume that you don't. This locale does not
exist in the standard CentOS distribution:

[zyv at servinet ~]$ locale -a | grep CP

and setting LANG without having generated and installed the locale
beforehand will break your locale settings.

If my assumptions are incorrect, bear with me.
 
-- 
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev