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>>>>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Ben de Groot wrote: |
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> I understand why the council rejected Debian's C.UTF-8 option, |
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> but is there really no better default that we can use? |
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> Without any default locale set, in practically all cases that means |
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> that the user is presented with English, and mostly the American |
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> variant. So, in practice, we are defaulting to en_US, just not in a |
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> unicode environment. Correct me if I'm wrong. |
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See below. We're not defaulting to en_US for things like the number |
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format. |
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> Also, in most other places (such as our website, GLEPs, ebuilds) |
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> we default to en_US.UTF-8. |
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> So let's upgrade to en_US.UTF-8, which is for most users more |
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> desirable than the current situation. Of course we will still advise |
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> them to set their desired locales in /etc/locale.gen. But at least |
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> they will start with a unicode environment, as expected anno 2012. |
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As I had pointed out before [1], changing from POSIX to an en_US |
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locale will have undesirable side effects, like commas as thousands |
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separators in numbers (because of LC_NUMERIC). Also the defaults of |
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en_US for LC_MEASUREMENT and LC_PAPER are only useful in the U.S. |
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So if we change the default (but I still don't see the need), we |
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should go for a less intrusive setting like: |
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LANG="POSIX" |
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LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" |
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Ulrich |
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[1] <http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_56a438adde8efebd467ada5f858048ba.xml> |
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