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

[Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn]

Ulrich Mueller schrieb:
> As I had pointed out before [1], changing from POSIX to an en_US
> locale will have undesirable side effects, like commas as thousands
> separators in numbers (because of LC_NUMERIC). Also the defaults of
> en_US for LC_MEASUREMENT and LC_PAPER are only useful in the U.S.
>
> So if we change the default (but I still don't see the need), we
> should go for a less intrusive setting like:
>
>    LANG="POSIX"
>    LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"

This would be better than LANG="en_US.utf8" but I would still prefer not
to have any country/region attached to the locale. The C.UTF-8 locale
which Debian uses for this purpose (a UTF-8 locale without side effects)
appears more suitable to me.


Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn