How to set a character set per application in *nix?

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Published on 2010-07-09T00:28:04Z Indexed on 2010/12/23 22:55 UTC
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I am attempting to set a character set of IBM850 on slackware linux for a particular application (epic5).

Im using rxvt-unicode and have setup LANG/LC_*=en_US. Now if I set the encoding to IBM850 in kde's konsole program im able to display certain characters correctly. I'd rather not use IBM850 for everything; is there a way to set/alias a command for a per application execution?

Ive tried things like:

LC_CTYPE=IBM850 epic5
LC_ALL=IBM850 epic5

No success. Any help would be appreciated

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