From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:47:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120220074731.GW944@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jhsddm$25j$1@dough.gmane.org>
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On 20-02-2012 03:07:33 +0000, Kerin Millar wrote:
> I know that adding LANG=POSIX doesn't do anything in this case but I
> have a feeling that its presence would be instructive to new users. If a
> user is asked to configure something which isn't present, it often
> generates questions which might otherwise be avoided. I've changed
> "en_US.UTF-8" to "en_US.utf8" there for similar reasons.
I don't understand. UTF-8 is the codeset, that utf8 is recognised as
the same thing is IMO a GNUism. glibc understands "UTF-8" perfectly
fine these days, so it should preferably be used instead. (Even the
man-page, utf8(7), suggests that.)
--
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-20 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-15 11:58 [gentoo-dev] LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default Francesco R.(vivo)
2012-02-15 12:22 ` Mr. Aaron W. Swenson
2012-02-18 2:31 ` [gentoo-dev] " Kerin Millar
2012-02-19 1:00 ` James Cloos
2012-02-19 2:04 ` Ben
2012-02-19 11:39 ` Amadeusz Żołnowski
2012-02-19 15:14 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-02-19 15:56 ` Ben
2012-02-19 18:44 ` Kerin Millar
2012-02-19 20:03 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-02-20 0:11 ` William Hubbs
2012-02-20 3:07 ` Kerin Millar
2012-02-20 7:47 ` Fabian Groffen [this message]
2012-02-20 12:27 ` Kerin Millar
2012-02-19 19:14 ` Kerin Millar
2012-02-20 9:49 ` [gentoo-dev] " Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
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