I came across this older mail by Markus:
> General warning: Please do not use the locale name en_US.UTF-8 anywhere
> outside North America. Some older Solaris documentation suggested that
> this is the only UTF-8 locale you'll ever need, as locales don't change
> much sensible beyond the encoding anyway. This is not the case any more
> today!
The problem is that on many Sun installations, en_US.UTF-8 is the
only UTF-8 locale available at all!
A decent solution to this problem would be to handle basic locale
information ("en_US") and encoding suffix ("UTF-8") separately and
specifiy that ANY available locale can be suffixed with ANY known
encoding, so installed de, gb, whatever locales could always be
run with UTF-8.
Is anything specified anywhere about this? Perhaps someone might
nag Sun to fix this broken thing.
Thomas Wolff
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Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels
Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
