El vie, 27-07-2012 a las 13:24 -0400, Mike Frysinger escribió: > 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
Do you have any idea about how much time could that formalization take? If it will take a long time, maybe we could go to that amalgamations :-/
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
