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| From: | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default | ||
| Date: | Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:29:03 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20488.35316.711787.711764@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default by Sascha Cunz |
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| 1 | >>>>> On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Sascha Cunz wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > Is there a reason for not using at least en_US.UTF-8 as a "sane" |
| 4 | > default value? |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Because there's no one-size-fits-all locale, but it is specific to |
| 7 | every system so the user must configure it? |
| 8 | |
| 9 | The matter was recently discussed in this mailing list [1] and also in |
| 10 | the March 2012 council meeting [2], and as a result the docs team has |
| 11 | amended the respective section [3] of the handbook. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Ulrich |
| 14 | |
| 15 | [1] <http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_2ffb7ea72e6209439600c371f6fc071d.xml> |
| 16 | [2] <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20120313.txt> |
| 17 | [3] <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=8> |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default | Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> |