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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Rz98Y-0002aV-0u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:57:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69050E0ADA; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:57:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB27FE0ACF for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:56:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lahd3 with SMTP id d3so6159585lah.40 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:56:40 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of yngwin@gmail.com designates 10.152.115.69 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.152.115.69; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of yngwin@gmail.com designates 10.152.115.69 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=yngwin@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=yngwin@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.152.115.69]) by 10.152.115.69 with SMTP id jm5mr5096936lab.25.1329667000804 (num_hops = 1); Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:56:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SZ0SltmEyU2UlSaxaiKA0+etqaYmMnb4lnVWIyY5m7Q=; b=FIyLmirgb7BhshY8JT0EthxF6Sg8Z7j7qKy7z2bouYBIY5tXqwCgJhF4uUGye/rctG mo8E0z2vWie9t2pRhUsC093OuqgIR+fbjlRJ6umt6+iHMobjw4Xu94oNNSlZeVtm+qco +NFCrlrC1U800/rKrx7kbPRyn5K56kJ4A9+h0= 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 Received: by 10.152.115.69 with SMTP id jm5mr4292694lab.25.1329667000739; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:56:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.149.164 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:56:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20289.4544.982570.920405@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <201202151258.52431.vivo75@gmail.com> <20120215122252.GA12319@atrus.grandmasfridge.org> <20289.4544.982570.920405@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:56:40 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default From: Ben To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: d08c47d7-bfc4-4597-ac8c-d36a9c73e9e0 X-Archives-Hash: bba6477b9aaa5d9eba4cc0a668ae5915 On 19 February 2012 23:14, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Ben =C2=A0wrote: > >> In my opinion we should set a default environment with the following >> values: > >> LANG=3Den_US.UTF-8 >> LC_ALL=3D >> LC_COLLATE=3DC > >> 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=3DC 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