[gentoo-dev] Re: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default

[Fabian Groffen]

On 20-02-2012 03:07:33 +0000, Kerin Millar wrote:
> I know that adding LANG=POSIX doesn't do anything in this case but I
> have a feeling that its presence would be instructive to new users. If a
> user is asked to configure something which isn't present, it often
> generates questions which might otherwise be avoided. I've changed
> "en_US.UTF-8" to "en_US.utf8" there for similar reasons.

I don't understand.  UTF-8 is the codeset, that utf8 is recognised as
the same thing is IMO a GNUism.  glibc understands "UTF-8" perfectly
fine these days, so it should preferably be used instead.  (Even the
man-page, utf8(7), suggests that.)


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Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level