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On Friday 27 July 2012 08:13:16 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: |
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> Ulrich Mueller schrieb: |
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> > As I had pointed out before [1], changing from POSIX to an en_US |
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> > locale will have undesirable side effects, like commas as thousands |
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> > separators in numbers (because of LC_NUMERIC). Also the defaults of |
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> > en_US for LC_MEASUREMENT and LC_PAPER are only useful in the U.S. |
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> > |
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> > So if we change the default (but I still don't see the need), we |
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> > |
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> > should go for a less intrusive setting like: |
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> > LANG="POSIX" |
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> > LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" |
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> |
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> This would be better than LANG="en_US.utf8" but I would still prefer not |
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> to have any country/region attached to the locale. The C.UTF-8 locale |
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> which Debian uses for this purpose (a UTF-8 locale without side effects) |
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> appears more suitable to me. |
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yes, and i'm waiting on the POSIX group to formalize C.UTF-8. that's the only |
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real option in my mind for making unicode the default. any other |
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amalgamations of various locales is ugly as sin. |
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-mike |
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