On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Drew Parsons wrote: > > en_AU UTF-8 tells it to make en_AU a UTF-8 locale. If you want > > en_AU.ISO-8859-1 as well, then add > > en_AU UTF-8 > > en_AU.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 > > or (what I would recommmend) > > en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8 > > en_AU ISO-8859-1
> Just out of interest, for what reason would you recommend the latter rather > than the former? The only reason I can see for this is so that you don't surprise other users of the system by breaking their current en_AU locale setting. If you're on a single-user system, I don't see any reason for not pointing en_AU at UTF-8. > And what about > en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8 > en_AU.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 Then 'en_AU' is not a usable locale, and you have to specify a charset to get anything... There's a benefit to having a default charset for the locale. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer