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

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> 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.

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

And why should we set the default to an US locale then? IMHO something
like

  LANG=C
  LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8

would be much less intrusive if you just want UTF-8, without
influencing other i18n variables.

Ulrich