From: Sascha Cunz <Sascha-ML@babbelbox.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 23:39:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3146937.NEprMvEFLe@mephista> (raw)
I recently discovered that I for some reason haven't noticed the warning about
setting the locale to utf-8 in the gentoo handbook for obviously several
years; thus i was still running all my systems in a POSIX locale since i never
cared much about it.
However, since I noticed, I talked to several people about it; all of them
stating as first response: "Not shipping with a utf-8 locale turned on by
default nowadays probably is a bug in your distro".
While thinking about this and recognizing that indeed recent distributions
ship with some UTF-8 locale by default, I tend to agree on that statement.
Though, google brings up a lot of good documentation about how to change the
locale, I couldn't find something that tells why stage3 is still delivered
with posix locale set.
Is there a reason for not using at least en_US.UTF-8 as a "sane" default
value?
BR,
SaCu
next reply other threads:[~2012-07-19 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-19 21:39 Sascha Cunz [this message]
2012-07-19 22:23 ` [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2012-07-19 22:28 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-07-27 6:42 ` Ben de Groot
2012-07-27 7:08 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-07-27 7:19 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2012-07-27 8:06 ` Dan Douglas
2012-07-27 8:34 ` Ben de Groot
2012-07-27 8:49 ` Michał Górny
2012-07-27 8:38 ` Cyprien Nicolas
2012-07-27 8:47 ` Michał Górny
2012-07-27 12:13 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2012-07-27 17:24 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-07-27 18:29 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-07-27 20:16 ` Aaron W. Swenson
2012-07-27 20:55 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-07-30 14:35 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-07-30 14:41 ` Michał Górny
2012-07-30 14:50 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-07-30 16:28 ` Michał Górny
2012-07-30 16:57 ` Michael Mol
2012-07-30 17:33 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-07-30 19:02 ` Walter Dnes
2012-07-31 15:16 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-08-02 21:38 ` Kent Fredric
2012-07-30 15:04 ` Michael Mol
2012-07-30 15:51 ` Aaron W. Swenson
2012-08-01 20:18 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2012-08-01 20:29 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-08-02 0:20 ` Walter Dnes
2012-08-02 1:00 ` Mike Gilbert
2012-08-02 6:42 ` Fabian Groffen
2012-08-02 9:14 ` Stelian Ionescu
2012-08-02 18:21 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-08-02 18:32 ` Mike Gilbert
2012-08-03 14:59 ` Matthew Summers
2012-08-03 15:47 ` Michał Górny
2012-08-03 16:54 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-08-03 17:09 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-08-02 18:45 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-08-02 5:36 ` Peter Stuge
2012-08-02 18:22 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-08-02 5:43 ` [gentoo-dev] " Sergey Popov
2012-07-30 14:42 ` Michael Mol
2012-07-30 15:29 ` Rich Freeman
2012-08-03 5:16 ` Luca Barbato
2012-08-08 1:58 ` Dan Douglas
2012-12-31 17:14 ` Maxim Kammerer
2012-12-31 21:44 ` Zac Medico
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