From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SryT3-0005AN-Sz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:41:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D15821C001; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:40:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.babbelbox.org (babbelbox.org [83.133.105.186]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95D0EE060F for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:40:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 6476 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2012 21:40:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mephista.localnet) (Sascha@Babbelbox.org@82.113.121.99) by babbelbox.org with ESMTPA; 19 Jul 2012 21:40:29 -0000 From: Sascha Cunz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 23:39:59 +0200 Message-ID: <3146937.NEprMvEFLe@mephista> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.4 (Linux/3.4.4-gentoo; KDE/4.8.4; x86_64; ; ) 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: a54936ac-c7af-45cd-8452-e117cc1da6e4 X-Archives-Hash: df644446e46d7fb1a048dbf165ec7866 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