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I recently discovered that I for some reason haven't noticed the warning about |
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setting the locale to utf-8 in the gentoo handbook for obviously several |
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years; thus i was still running all my systems in a POSIX locale since i never |
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cared much about it. |
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However, since I noticed, I talked to several people about it; all of them |
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stating as first response: "Not shipping with a utf-8 locale turned on by |
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default nowadays probably is a bug in your distro". |
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While thinking about this and recognizing that indeed recent distributions |
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ship with some UTF-8 locale by default, I tend to agree on that statement. |
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Though, google brings up a lot of good documentation about how to change the |
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locale, I couldn't find something that tells why stage3 is still delivered |
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with posix locale set. |
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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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BR, |
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SaCu |