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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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  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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