On Sun, 2014-08-31 at 22:03 -0700, Michael Havens wrote: > en_US.UTF-8? Really? I was thinking the right thing to do was to use > en_US.iso88591 because en_US locale is it's alias. So, you are saying > to use en_US.UTF-8?
Yes. UTF-8 is modern and standard, designed to cope with non-English characters. ISO-8859-1 isn't... it's basically a very limited extension of ASCII to add the most common accented characters and currency symbols, and it has no practical advantages unless you're stuck with crappy software that can't deal with anything better I'm ranting a little, but 8859-1 has been the bane of my life lately, working on a software translation project... too much old code that can't understand the need to deal with Japanese text... Simon. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
