This would probably be likely to break lots of existing users depending on the default charset, depressingly enough.
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Helio Frota <heliofr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Martin Buchholz, > > I believe (but I could be wrong) that only java applications exhibit this > behavior, programs made with GTK or QT are not affected, > they probably look at the level of the X11 case are not in variable > LANG or assume > a default locale. > > > > $ (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= > > > > Please try to use á é í ... > > But I think the operating system should set the default, not the > > application. On my Ubuntu system I see the traditional ASCII English > > default: > > > > I agree, but the JVM could not be pro-active ? > > Thanks for reply ! > > 2013/3/18 Martin Buchholz <marti...@google.com> > > > 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. > >> > > > > > -- > Helio Frota > http://www.heliofrota.com/ > -- Louis Wasserman
