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On Friday 18 July 2014 06:54:32 Mick wrote: |
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> On Thursday 17 Jul 2014 23:48:51 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > This is my /etc/locale.gen: |
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> > |
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> > en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8 |
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> > en_GB ISO-8859-1 |
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> > en_GB.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15 |
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> > |
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> > I don't remember why I still have those last two entries; I expect they |
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> > date from before Gentoo adopted UTF-8. Maybe I'll remove them and see |
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> > what happens. |
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> The last line is for Western European ASCII character encodings, just like |
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> en_GB ISO-8859-1, but with the Euro symbol and some other accented |
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> characters missing from the latter. |
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Yes, I remember that, just not why I haven't ditched them since UTF-8 took |
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over the world. |
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> Nothing will happen if you remove the last two entries, because (I think) |
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> that the UTF-8 character encodings cover all these. |
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That's my uncertainty too. |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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