Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Ben de Groot wrote: >> >> So let's upgrade to en_US.UTF-8, which is for most users more >> desirable than the current situation. Of course we will still advise >> them to set their desired locales in /etc/locale.gen. But at least >> they will start with a unicode environment, as expected anno 2012. > > As I had pointed out before [1], changing from POSIX to an en_US > locale will have undesirable side effects, like commas as thousands > separators in numbers (because of LC_NUMERIC). Also the defaults of > en_US for LC_MEASUREMENT and LC_PAPER are only useful in the U.S.
For this very reason by system locale is en_IE.UTF-8. Still English but using Euro Monetary, Metric units, A4 paper, etc. It might suit needs for most European installs, but not for everyone. -- Cyprien / Fulax Gentoo Lisp Project contributor
