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 29A0B13800E for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 20:17:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C8DAE0738; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 20:17:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mo-p05-ob.rzone.de (mo-p05-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D27DE05DB for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 20:16:18 +0000 (UTC) X-RZG-AUTH: :IW0NeWCpcPchHrcnS4ebzBgQnKHTmUiSF2JlOcyz+57jTVMtVX7471ELeN8= X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo05 Received: from pinacolada.localnet (95-130-166-116.hsi.glasfaser-ostbayern.de [95.130.166.116]) by smtp.strato.de (jorabe mo75) (RZmta 30.2 AUTH) with ESMTPA id c04f3fo71IHexL for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 22:16:17 +0200 (CEST) From: "Andreas K. Huettel" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 22:18:12 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.3.1-gentoo; KDE/4.9.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <3146937.NEprMvEFLe@mephista> <5016AD71.5070602@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <5016AD71.5070602@gentoo.org> 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; boundary="nextPart3764888.7JiFpkSCD1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201208012218.19190.dilfridge@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 8fc4d30d-0361-4fa9-a90f-f97cef04d1ac X-Archives-Hash: 150d73dda53cc2a3b53d16db5c666d96 --nextPart3764888.7JiFpkSCD1 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >=20 > If it turns out that C or POSIX is the most common response, we should > then default the locale to en_US.UTF-8 if we really want to default to > a UTF-8 setting. The reason being it makes sense to have the default > locale set to the country of origin, which in our case is the United > States. >=20 Given the number of Gentoo devs (especially on the desktop side where this= =20 matters most) from other parts of the world, that's not really a valid=20 argument. In particular in cases as e.g. "Paper size setting", where basica= lly=20 US stubbornness stands against the rest of the planet. =2D-=20 Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer=20 dilfridge@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ --nextPart3764888.7JiFpkSCD1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlAZjwsACgkQ3ao2Zwy3NWqqOACgjSi5VFRLblz7ZN84HJsQhSs+ TBgAn0NOhCEOuFX6OUVf5qmJErI4qdq/ =2HEh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3764888.7JiFpkSCD1--