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On 29-02-2012 22:08:17 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: |
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> I'm not sure it's council material but it could be; |
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> Proposal to change the environment variables to achieve a utf-8 gentoo |
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> by default. |
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> It has been discussed in a thread "LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default" [1], |
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> some concerns have been expressed and some solution proposed, however |
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> there is no explicit consensus. |
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> If you're interested I can try to sum that thread up [2] and possibly |
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> do some research on the matter. |
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I think that discussion can be split into |
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1) if a UTF-8 profile should be set as default, and |
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2) what UTF-8 profile that would be |
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Just to give some hints/ideas here: |
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For 1), for many people it's a waste, and it's not POSIX (== C IIRC), so |
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should we really do that. Also, how about this changing default for |
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existing systems. Why not update the docs to strongly suggest to set an |
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UTF-8 profile instead. |
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Then, 2) is almost moot. If you would default to an UTF-8 profile, I |
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think the only sensical option is en_US.UTF-8 (not en_GB). However, if |
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you only strongly suggest in the installation docs, you can get away |
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from this problem, since the user has to choose his/her preference in |
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that case anyway. Just a note that leaving en_US.UTF-8 always in is a |
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good idea would suffice, I guess. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |