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From: Alexey Shvetsov <alexxy@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2012-03-13
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:02:28
Message-Id: 1332cd64c11b1270cfa55a47297d7718@omrb.pnpi.spb.ru
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2012-03-13 by Francesco Riosa
1 Francesco Riosa писал 2012-03-02 00:49:
2 > 2012/3/1 Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o>:
3 >> On 2012.03.01 10:29, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
4 >> [snip]
5 >>>
6 >>> I agree that en_*.UTF-8 is a reasonable setting. I think for
7 >>> LC_CTYPE
8 >>> it doesn't even matter if it's en_US or en_GB.
9 >>>
10 >>> Ulrich
11 >>>
12 >>>
13 >>
14 >> Team,
15 >>
16 >> As an Englishman, it hurts to say it but for consistencys sake it
17 >> needs
18 >> to be en_US.
19 >>
20 >> Everything else I can think of uses American as a default. Xorg,
21 >> console keymaps, even ls --colour fails.
22 >
23 > It hurt to say I do always underestimate pills of humor I (try to)
24 > insert in emails.
25 > At the time of the first post I didn't knew of a C.utf-8 possibility
26 > (or that would have been my choice) but otherwise the most logical is
27 > en_US.
28 >
29 > Another thing I do really don't know yet is how this reflect on
30 > file-system paths.
31 > File system is safe because it's encoding agnostic, it eats all but
32 > \0
33 > and "/" right?
34 > But how do applications react to a change in the LC_* variables?
35
36 They all will work =D
37
38 I use as system locale ru_RU.UTF-8 or en_US.UTF-8 by default and all
39 works fine here
40
41 --
42 Best Regards,
43 Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov
44 Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russia
45 Department of Molecular and Radiation Biophysics
46 Gentoo Team Ru
47 Gentoo Linux Dev
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