On 20/02/2012 07:47, Fabian Groffen wrote:
On 20-02-2012 03:07:33 +, Kerin Millar wrote:
I know that adding LANG=POSIX doesn't do anything in this case but I
have a feeling that its presence would be instructive to new users. If a
user is asked to configure something which isn't present, it
On 20-02-2012 03:07:33 +, Kerin Millar wrote:
> I know that adding LANG=POSIX doesn't do anything in this case but I
> have a feeling that its presence would be instructive to new users. If a
> user is asked to configure something which isn't present, it often
> generates questions which mig
On 20/02/2012 00:11, William Hubbs wrote:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:56:40PM +0800, Ben wrote:
On 19 February 2012 23:14, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Ben wrote:
In my opinion we should set a default environment with the following
values:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=
LC_COLLAT
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:56:40PM +0800, Ben wrote:
> On 19 February 2012 23:14, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Ben wrote:
> >
> >> In my opinion we should set a default environment with the following
> >> values:
> >
> >> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> >> LC_ALL=
> >> LC_COLLATE=C
> >
> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Ben wrote:
>>> In my opinion we should set a default environment with the
>>> following values:
>>
>>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>> LC_ALL=
>>> LC_COLLATE=C
>>
>>> This offers the best default options to the majority of users, and
>>> is easy to customize for those who wish t
On 19/02/2012 01:00, James Cloos wrote:
"KM" == Kerin Millar writes:
KM> Arch also used to define LC_COLLATE="C" by default, probably to
KM> mitigate unpredictable behaviour in some applications, but have
KM> since dropped this additional variable so they must have deemed it
KM> no longer
On 19/02/2012 15:56, Ben wrote:
On 19 February 2012 23:14, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Ben wrote:
In my opinion we should set a default environment with the following
values:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=
LC_ALL isn't needed here because, unlike other LC_* settings, it does
On 19 February 2012 23:14, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Ben wrote:
>
>> In my opinion we should set a default environment with the following
>> values:
>
>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>> LC_ALL=
>> LC_COLLATE=C
>
>> This offers the best default options to the majority of users, and
>>
> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Ben wrote:
> In my opinion we should set a default environment with the following
> values:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_ALL=
> LC_COLLATE=C
> This offers the best default options to the majority of users, and
> is easy to customize for those who wish to use another locale
Excerpts from Ben's message of 2012-02-19 03:04:19 +0100:
> On 19 February 2012 09:00, James Cloos wrote:
> > Without LC_COLLATE="C" things like [a-z]* gets a false=positive
> > match on files like Makefile. [...]
> >
> > The real fix is to have root be C.UTF-8. Which differs from C only
> > in t
On 19 February 2012 09:00, James Cloos wrote:
> Without LC_COLLATE="C" things like [a-z]* gets a false=positive match
> on files like Makefile. [...]
>
> The real fix is to have root be C.UTF-8. Which differs from C only in
> that the charset is utf-8.
In my opinion we should set a default envir
> "KM" == Kerin Millar writes:
KM> Arch also used to define LC_COLLATE="C" by default, probably to
KM> mitigate unpredictable behaviour in some applications, but have
KM> since dropped this additional variable so they must have deemed it
KM> no longer necessary.
Without LC_COLLATE="C" things
On 15/02/2012 12:22, Mr. Aaron W. Swenson wrote:
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:58:52PM +0100, Francesco R.(vivo) wrote:
as subject says could gentoo change the policy and set an UTF-8 environment by
default?
Perhaps it should define LANG="en_US.UTF-8" as a reasonable default,
which would be in l
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