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

[Michał Górny]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:38:30 +0200
Cyprien Nicolas <c.nicolas@×××××.com> wrote:

> 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.

Still uses ',' for thousands sep.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny