Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:56:40PM +0800, Ben wrote:
> On 19 February 2012 23:14, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >>>>>> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Ben  wrote:
> >
> >> In my opinion we should set a default environment with the following
> >> values:
> >
> >> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> >> LC_ALL=
> >> LC_COLLATE=C
> >
> >> This offers the best default options to the majority of users, and
> >> is easy to customize for those who wish to use another locale.
> >
> > At least, LC_NUMERIC=C should be added to this, otherwise numbers will
> > be formatted with commas as thousands separators.
> >
> > Also en_US.UTF-8 for LC_MEASUREMENT and LC_PAPER means imperial units
> > and letter paper, which isn't optimal for users outside of the U.S.
> >
> > Ulrich
> >
> 
> I think those users (and that includes myself) should then set LANG to
> something more appropriate to their use case.

According to our localization guide, there is a safe default that forces
UTF-8 characters but doesn't force any language. I have the following
single line in /etc/env.d/02locale:

LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

What do you think?

William


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