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

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

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El vie, 27-07-2012 a las 13:24 -0400, Mike Frysinger escribió:
> On Friday 27 July 2012 08:13:16 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> > Ulrich Mueller schrieb:
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > So if we change the default (but I still don't see the need), we
> > > 
> > > should go for a less intrusive setting like:
> > >    LANG="POSIX"
> > >    LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
> > 
> > This would be better than LANG="en_US.utf8" but I would still prefer not
> > to have any country/region attached to the locale. The C.UTF-8 locale
> > which Debian uses for this purpose (a UTF-8 locale without side effects)
> > appears more suitable to me.
> 
> yes, and i'm waiting on the POSIX group to formalize C.UTF-8.  that's the only 
> real option in my mind for making unicode the default.  any other 
> amalgamations of various locales is ugly as sin.
> -mike

Do you have any idea about how much time could that formalization take?
If it will take a long time, maybe we could go to that amalgamations :-/

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