I recently discovered that I for some reason haven't noticed the warning about setting the locale to utf-8 in the gentoo handbook for obviously several years; thus i was still running all my systems in a POSIX locale since i never cared much about it.
However, since I noticed, I talked to several people about it; all of them stating as first response: "Not shipping with a utf-8 locale turned on by default nowadays probably is a bug in your distro". While thinking about this and recognizing that indeed recent distributions ship with some UTF-8 locale by default, I tend to agree on that statement. Though, google brings up a lot of good documentation about how to change the locale, I couldn't find something that tells why stage3 is still delivered with posix locale set. Is there a reason for not using at least en_US.UTF-8 as a "sane" default value? BR, SaCu
