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 431F113800E for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:15:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A32EE06EE; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:14:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25163E05D7 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:13:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [141.23.92.221] (unknown [141.23.92.221]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: chithanh) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4B4CB1B4019 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:13:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <501285DC.2020207@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:13:16 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2jDrS1UaGFuaCBDaHJpc3RvcGhlciBOZ3V54buFbg==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120703 Firefox/13.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.10.1 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default References: <3146937.NEprMvEFLe@mephista> <20488.35316.711787.711764@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20498.15988.225230.614853@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <20498.15988.225230.614853@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 6d259ae7-897a-434a-9a79-baf0e923f797 X-Archives-Hash: 574ffc4585808d1ee309b1c6ebf41bae Ulrich Mueller schrieb: > 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. > > So if we change the default (but I still don't see the need), we > should go for a less intrusive setting like: > > LANG="POSIX" > LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" This would be better than LANG="en_US.utf8" but I would still prefer not to have any country/region attached to the locale. The C.UTF-8 locale which Debian uses for this purpose (a UTF-8 locale without side effects) appears more suitable to me. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn