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

[Cyprien Nicolas]

Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Ben de Groot wrote:
>>
>> So let's upgrade to en_US.UTF-8, which is for most users more
>> desirable than the current situation. Of course we will still advise
>> them to set their desired locales in /etc/locale.gen. But at least
>> they will start with a unicode environment, as expected anno 2012.
>
> 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.

For this very reason by system locale is en_IE.UTF-8. Still English but
using Euro Monetary, Metric units, A4 paper, etc.

It might suit needs for most European installs, but not for everyone.

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Cyprien / Fulax
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