Francesco Riosa писал 2012-03-02 00:49:
> 2012/3/1 Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o>:
>> On 2012.03.01 10:29, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>
>>> I agree that en_*.UTF-8 is a reasonable setting. I think for 
>>> LC_CTYPE
>>> it doesn't even matter if it's en_US or en_GB.
>>>
>>> Ulrich
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Team,
>>
>> As an Englishman, it hurts to say it but for consistencys sake it 
>> needs
>> to be en_US.
>>
>> Everything else I can think of uses American as a default. Xorg,
>> console keymaps, even ls --colour fails.
>
> It hurt to say I do always underestimate pills of humor I (try to)
> insert in emails.
> At the time of the first post I didn't knew of a C.utf-8 possibility
> (or that would have been my choice) but otherwise the most logical is
> en_US.
>
> Another thing I do really don't know yet is how this reflect on
> file-system paths.
> File system is safe because it's encoding agnostic, it eats all but 
> \0
> and "/" right?
> But how do applications react to a change in the LC_* variables?

They all will work =D

I use as system locale ru_RU.UTF-8 or en_US.UTF-8 by default and all 
works fine here

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