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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2012-03-13
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:03:21
Message-Id: 4F4F5A44.9040501@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2012-03-13 by Ulrich Mueller
1 Ulrich Mueller schrieb:
2 >
3 > If we change the default, we should use a less intrusive approach
4 > and change LC_CTYPE only, which is the relevant variable that
5 > controls the character encoding functions.
6
7 LC_CTYPE will affect transliteration too. Introducing a C.UTF-8 (or
8 POSIX.UTF-8) locale like Debian did could be done without possibly
9 subjecting users to unexpected transliteration results of e.g.
10 Cyrillic or German umlauts.
11
12
13 Best regards,
14 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

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