On Friday 27 July 2012 08:13:16 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Ulrich Mueller schrieb: > > 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. > > > > So if we change the default (but I still don't see the need), we > > > > should go for a less intrusive setting like: > > LANG="POSIX" > > LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" > > This would be better than LANG="en_US.utf8" but I would still prefer not > to have any country/region attached to the locale. The C.UTF-8 locale > which Debian uses for this purpose (a UTF-8 locale without side effects) > appears more suitable to me.
yes, and i'm waiting on the POSIX group to formalize C.UTF-8. that's the only real option in my mind for making unicode the default. any other amalgamations of various locales is ugly as sin. -mike
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