Simon Geard wrote:
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 has some legitimate comments, but I don't use any setting for
locale/LANG. In my case, the man pages don't work properly:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man man
gives me things like:
The manual page associated with each of these arguâ<80><90>
========
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ls
also gives me a sort order that is not case sensitive. I do not like that.
========
Note that graphical applications like mail clients and browsers often
have their own independent locale settings.
-- Bruce
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