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On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 02:04:00PM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: |
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> Legitimate locales are those installed with glibc. These can be shown |
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> with either "eselect locale list" or "locale -a". |
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Having never used eselect with locales (AFAIR) before today. |
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Why does "locale -a" return utf8? I know UTF-8 is accepted as standard, utf8 |
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is not but usually recognized, but want to understand why "locale -a" output |
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omits the standard, which is set on my systems, and differs from the others: |
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o@workstation ~ $ eselect locale list |
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Available targets for the LANG variable: |
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[1] C |
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[2] POSIX |
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[3] en_US.utf8 |
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[4] en_US.UTF-8 * |
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[ ] (free form) |
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mingdao@workstation ~ $ locale -a |
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C |
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POSIX |
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en_US.utf8 |
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mingdao@workstation ~ $ locale |
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LANG=en_US.UTF-8 |
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LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" |
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LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" |
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LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" |
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LC_COLLATE=C |
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LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" |
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LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" |
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LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" |
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LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" |
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LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" |
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LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" |
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LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" |
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LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" |
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LC_ALL= |
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Cheers, |
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Bruce |
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. |
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Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? |
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A: Top-posting. |
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Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? |
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Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting |
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