On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:38:30 +0200 Cyprien Nicolas <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Still uses ',' for thousands sep. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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