On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 14:44 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Certainly, but I have no need for non-ascii characters in a terminal so > I prefer to leave LANG and LC_* unset.
Whereas while I can personally only speak English with any fluency, I travel regularly for pleasure, and work with people from around the world as part of my job. Being able to correctly deal with all manner of accented characters (and more recently, non-latin alphabets) is essential. 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
