Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default

[Andreas K. Huettel]

>
> If it turns out that C or POSIX is the most common response, we should
> then default the locale to en_US.UTF-8 if we really want to default to
> a UTF-8 setting. The reason being it makes sense to have the default
> locale set to the country of origin, which in our case is the United
> States.
>

Given the number of Gentoo devs (especially on the desktop side where this 
matters most) from other parts of the world, that's not really a valid 
argument. In particular in cases as e.g. "Paper size setting", where basically 
US stubbornness stands against the rest of the planet.

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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfridge@g.o
http://www.akhuettel.de/