It *would* be nice if the world agreed on using UTF-8 as a universal encoding for all text. However:
Standard says http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html """If the LANG environment variable is not set or is set to the empty string, the implementation-defined default locale shall be used.""" But I think the operating system should set the default, not the application. On my Ubuntu system I see the traditional ASCII English default: $ (unset LC_ALL LC_COLLATE LANG LANGUAGE GDM_LANG; locale) LANG= LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="POSIX" LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Helio Frota <heliofr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would suggest taking en_US.UTF-8 as default when the LANG variable is not > set to avoid problems with encoding. >
