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At Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:02:58 +0200, |
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Miernik wrote: |
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> Anyway, why is this we have to choose a territory for our language, I do |
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> not live in any english-speaking territory, nor it is Denmark, and I |
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> don't want to put on my computer on what territory I live, as it is none |
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> of it's business. Couldn't there be something like POSIX.UTF-8 locale, |
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> or maybe make the POSIX locale be UTF-8 by default? Or C.UTF-8 |
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> I would be very happy not having to put any specific country in the |
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> settings of my computer. |
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Why? Are you planning on moving?^^ But have you tried POSIX.UTF-8? |
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Because it sounds sensible, and thus could be already implemented. |
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> And ordering of date - what does that have to do with territory and |
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> language? I don't care what territory has what ordering commonly used - |
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> I want to have it in form 2008-07-19, is there a way to do it? |
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That's just a shortcut, so you don't have to set every setting |
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explicitly. If you want, just set the respective LC_* variables, for |
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example LC_TIME for the right time format. |
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