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From: "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 07:19:25
Message-Id: 501240FA.9080108@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default by Ulrich Mueller
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4 On 07/27/2012 03:08 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
5 >
6 > As I had pointed out before [1], changing from POSIX to an en_US
7 > locale will have undesirable side effects, like commas as thousands
8 > separators in numbers (because of LC_NUMERIC). Also the defaults of
9 > en_US for LC_MEASUREMENT and LC_PAPER are only useful in the U.S.
10 >
11 > So if we change the default (but I still don't see the need), we
12 > should go for a less intrusive setting like:
13 >
14 > LANG="POSIX"
15 > LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
16
17 I would love to see a utf8 default, if the above is agreeable then I say +1
18
19 - -Zero
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