On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 10:03:47PM -0700, Michael Havens wrote: > It used to be. For modern glibc, I have no idea. Why not just use > > > the extra six characters and specify en_US.UTF-8 ? > > > > 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?
To add to what Simon said - Yes, ναι, да, kyllä, já, jā, có [ translations taken from google translate, limited to to those characters which I expect to be able to read in a tty ¹ ]. In ISO-8859-1 you would not be able to read the cyrillic or greek, and I dare say that the macron on the a probably doesn't render either. Unfortunately, translations of 'yes' do not show up some of the Eastern European latin characters which are fairly commonly encountered, such as c with caron č, l with stroke ł, o with double acute ő. For example, there was a post on one of the lists last week from somebody in Vietnam - in his sig he used the vietnamese version of his name with diacritical marks not commonly used in european languages (I think there was an 'i' with a dot below it : no I cannot read that in a tty unless I restrict my console font to vietnamese, but I can read it in a graphical term with some fonts installed). And we often get Eastern Europeans on the lists - it is nice to be able to read people's names ins their postings. I saved this before sending it, and on the version of glibc in LFS-7.4 [ my mail is on my server ] I can confirm that en_US was indeed latin-1, and unable to make sense of some of my examples, so I guess it always will be. ¹ Using my own LatGrkCyr fonts, of course ;-) ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- 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
