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Sascha Cunz schrieb: |
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> Is there a reason for not using at least en_US.UTF-8 as a "sane" default |
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> value? |
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It has been discussed some time ago already. Setting LANG="en_US.UTF-8" |
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would mess with collation rules, measurement&paper units etc. which has |
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the potential to make users outside USA unhappy. |
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It might make sense to set LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF8" but even so, |
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transliteration may give you unexpected results. |
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To illustrate this, try running |
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echo äå | LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 iconv -t ASCII//TRANSLIT -f UTF-8 |
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echo äå | LC_CTYPE=da_DK.UTF-8 iconv -t ASCII//TRANSLIT -f UTF-8 |
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echo äå | LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 iconv -t ASCII//TRANSLIT -f UTF-8 |
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and compare the output. |
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For the previous discussion, see this thread: |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_2ffb7ea72e6209439600c371f6fc071d.xml |
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Best regards, |
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |
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