From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RxdWR-0005ZP-10 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:59:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C440E08C0; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:59:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11861E0C7A for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:58:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werp13 with SMTP id p13so685150wer.40 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:58:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=lrcOEUHK2nsP2mPJkrq4CP0Oe3kL7xtOwm036BlELOQ=; b=ihI1BzldfZBPhRGDAK0XDGi9KN0boo/DpYeOxUl9goCSNYi79c8l0iVNEq2j0AlvvN ZIpO5LImeYzatyxcSXQBOKbpr6ML/AxMC73fSI6ElJqLv9XuzHCTS8kJ1WQfYMS+3XC8 t6UwHs+YitAv7HwQjnt4bdf97H9CaVhYU5urc= Received: by 10.216.136.80 with SMTP id v58mr2499269wei.34.1329307135300; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:58:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from monfi.localnet (122.81.186.89.dsl.static.ip.kpnqwest.it. [89.186.81.122]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s8sm33007317wiz.8.2012.02.15.03.58.53 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:58:54 -0800 (PST) From: "Francesco R.(vivo)" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:58:52 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.2.5-vs2.3.2.6-hardened; KDE/4.8.0; x86_64; ; ) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201202151258.52431.vivo75@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: a94e3f41-4f29-486b-9a37-2881640c7e11 X-Archives-Hash: 2ffb7ea72e6209439600c371f6fc071d as subject says could gentoo change the policy and set an UTF-8 environment by default? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml how to do it very well but having it already set could have the following two advantages: 1) well utf-8 is everywhere, even the linux weekly newsletter has it in 2012 2) the user need to change, not to create a /etc/env.d/XX-lc, creating a standard place where every gentoo install has this settings. contra? P.S. would be nice to have a wd_WD.UTF-8 with WD standing for world, just a country is so 1900