From: Ben <yngwin@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:56:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAB9SyzTB_JNMpTz2Z5JaTVWpPtmKf8vivKOe16Ct4vkwC++JPA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20289.4544.982570.920405@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>
On 19 February 2012 23:14, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Ben wrote:
>
>> In my opinion we should set a default environment with the following
>> values:
>
>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>> LC_ALL=
>> LC_COLLATE=C
>
>> This offers the best default options to the majority of users, and
>> is easy to customize for those who wish to use another locale.
>
> At least, LC_NUMERIC=C should be added to this, otherwise numbers will
> be formatted with commas as thousands separators.
>
> Also en_US.UTF-8 for LC_MEASUREMENT and LC_PAPER means imperial units
> and letter paper, which isn't optimal for users outside of the U.S.
>
> Ulrich
>
I think those users (and that includes myself) should then set LANG to
something more appropriate to their use case.
Ben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-19 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-15 11:58 [gentoo-dev] LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default Francesco R.(vivo)
2012-02-15 12:22 ` Mr. Aaron W. Swenson
2012-02-18 2:31 ` [gentoo-dev] " Kerin Millar
2012-02-19 1:00 ` James Cloos
2012-02-19 2:04 ` Ben
2012-02-19 11:39 ` Amadeusz Żołnowski
2012-02-19 15:14 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-02-19 15:56 ` Ben [this message]
2012-02-19 18:44 ` Kerin Millar
2012-02-19 20:03 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-02-20 0:11 ` William Hubbs
2012-02-20 3:07 ` Kerin Millar
2012-02-20 7:47 ` Fabian Groffen
2012-02-20 12:27 ` Kerin Millar
2012-02-19 19:14 ` Kerin Millar
2012-02-20 9:49 ` [gentoo-dev] " Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
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