Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default

[Ben]

On 19 February 2012 23:14, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Ben  wrote:
>
>> In my opinion we should set a default environment with the following
>> values:
>
>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>> LC_ALL=
>> LC_COLLATE=C
>
>> This offers the best default options to the majority of users, and
>> is easy to customize for those who wish to use another locale.
>
> At least, LC_NUMERIC=C should be added to this, otherwise numbers will
> be formatted with commas as thousands separators.
>
> Also en_US.UTF-8 for LC_MEASUREMENT and LC_PAPER means imperial units
> and letter paper, which isn't optimal for users outside of the U.S.
>
> Ulrich
>

I think those users (and that includes myself) should then set LANG to
something more appropriate to their use case.

Ben