From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7038513800E for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:47:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1252D21C006; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:47:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8336FE0733 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:46:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiocik.lan (87-205-49-30.adsl.inetia.pl [87.205.49.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CA5751B4011; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:46:43 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:47:10 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBHw7Nybnk=?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: c.nicolas@gmail.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default Message-ID: <20120727104710.2906cee3@pomiocik.lan> In-Reply-To: <50125386.8030805@gmail.com> References: <3146937.NEprMvEFLe@mephista> <20488.35316.711787.711764@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20498.15988.225230.614853@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <50125386.8030805@gmail.com> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA256; boundary="Sig_/lu.AKESxyQOsMaQNXpvADSO"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: b98df1c3-a703-4d1b-9b12-0a967e8c2d86 X-Archives-Hash: fc9057ae02affe3c2b8132db4b24905a --Sig_/lu.AKESxyQOsMaQNXpvADSO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:38:30 +0200 Cyprien Nicolas wrote: > Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >> On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Ben de Groot wrote: > >> > >> So let's upgrade to en_US.UTF-8, which is for most users more > >> desirable than the current situation. Of course we will still > >> advise them to set their desired locales in /etc/locale.gen. But > >> at least they will start with a unicode environment, as expected > >> anno 2012. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > For this very reason by system locale is en_IE.UTF-8. Still English > but using Euro Monetary, Metric units, A4 paper, etc. >=20 > It might suit needs for most European installs, but not for everyone. Still uses ',' for thousands sep. --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny --Sig_/lu.AKESxyQOsMaQNXpvADSO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQEIAAYFAlASVY8ACgkQfXuS5UK5QB3L9gP+MBhXBdl/vJ9UBfvAn9OWBmUn 3s6jlflXrDrhC8vbgRiTqrZkclQjz1RkhqlQigorf/HnwEQvGuCR0SUwfrvgss/e XpwRNWSNE7m2y75VI1QYJ0OYUV5aGLCCXBSaaZWwCIMvL9o9ESVAY50Mb7WoMLcI eiQXPGoLrN44tS7rxBw= =SEvo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/lu.AKESxyQOsMaQNXpvADSO--