See also: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs04.html.en
Avoid all of the above steps - use grml-debootstrap(8) instead!
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-Convert files from Unicode / UTF to ISO:
+Convert files from Unicode / UTF-8 to ISO:
% iconv -f utf8 -t iso-8859-15 < utffile > isofile
# tzconfig
which adjusts /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime according
- to the provided information.
+ to the provided information. Running:
+
+ # dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
+
+ might be useful as well.
* /etc/default/rcS: set variable UTC according to your needs,
whether your system clock is set to UTC (UTC='yes') or
% script -t 2>~/upgrade.time -a ~/upgrade.script
% scriptreplay ~/upgrade.time ~/upgrade.script
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+Test UTF-8 capabilities of terminal:
+
+wget http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/download/UTF-8-demo.txt.gz
+zcat UTF-8-demo.txt.gz
+
+or:
+
+wget http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-test.txt
+cat UTF-8-test.txt
+--
+UTF-8 at grml / some general information regarding Unicde/UTF-8:
+
+ http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=utf8
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