Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C

["Jan Seeger" <jan.seeger@thenybble.de>]

At Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:02:58 +0200,
Miernik  wrote:
> Anyway, why is this we have to choose a territory for our language, I do
> not live in any english-speaking territory, nor it is Denmark, and I
> don't want to put on my computer on what territory I live, as it is none
> of it's business. Couldn't there be something like POSIX.UTF-8 locale,
> or maybe make the POSIX locale be UTF-8 by default? Or C.UTF-8
> I would be very happy not having to put any specific country in the
> settings of my computer.

Why? Are you planning on moving?^^ But have you tried POSIX.UTF-8?
Because it sounds sensible, and thus could be already implemented.

> And ordering of date - what does that have to do with territory and
> language? I don't care what territory has what ordering commonly used -
> I want to have it in form 2008-07-19, is there a way to do it?

That's just a shortcut, so you don't have to set every setting
explicitly. If you want, just set the respective LC_* variables, for
example LC_TIME for the right time format.
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