John Darrington <[email protected]> skribis:

> The fact is, that although the C library and most tools "support" utf8, many 
> machines (for whatever reason) do not have the locales installed.
> For example, if you logon to fencepost.gnu.org and try export 
> LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8
> you will get an error.

This machine has few locales installed:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
ludo@fencepost:~$ locale -a
C
cs_CZ.utf8
en_US.utf8
es_AR.utf8
ja_JP.utf8
pl_PL.utf8
POSIX
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

It defaults to en_US.utf8.

Ludo’.

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