>>>>> On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Sascha Cunz wrote: > Is there a reason for not using at least en_US.UTF-8 as a "sane" > default value?
Because there's no one-size-fits-all locale, but it is specific to every system so the user must configure it? The matter was recently discussed in this mailing list [1] and also in the March 2012 council meeting [2], and as a result the docs team has amended the respective section [3] of the handbook. Ulrich [1] <http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_2ffb7ea72e6209439600c371f6fc071d.xml> [2] <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20120313.txt> [3] <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=8>
