At Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:02:58 +0200, Miernik wrote: > Anyway, why is this we have to choose a territory for our language, I do > not live in any english-speaking territory, nor it is Denmark, and I > don't want to put on my computer on what territory I live, as it is none > of it's business. Couldn't there be something like POSIX.UTF-8 locale, > or maybe make the POSIX locale be UTF-8 by default? Or C.UTF-8 > I would be very happy not having to put any specific country in the > settings of my computer.
Why? Are you planning on moving?^^ But have you tried POSIX.UTF-8? Because it sounds sensible, and thus could be already implemented. > And ordering of date - what does that have to do with territory and > language? I don't care what territory has what ordering commonly used - > I want to have it in form 2008-07-19, is there a way to do it? That's just a shortcut, so you don't have to set every setting explicitly. If you want, just set the respective LC_* variables, for example LC_TIME for the right time format. -- Four bits at a time www.thenybble.de
