Sascha Cunz schrieb: > Is there a reason for not using at least en_US.UTF-8 as a "sane" default > value?
It has been discussed some time ago already. Setting LANG="en_US.UTF-8" would mess with collation rules, measurement&paper units etc. which has the potential to make users outside USA unhappy. It might make sense to set LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF8" but even so, transliteration may give you unexpected results. To illustrate this, try running echo äå | LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 iconv -t ASCII//TRANSLIT -f UTF-8 echo äå | LC_CTYPE=da_DK.UTF-8 iconv -t ASCII//TRANSLIT -f UTF-8 echo äå | LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 iconv -t ASCII//TRANSLIT -f UTF-8 and compare the output. For the previous discussion, see this thread: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_2ffb7ea72e6209439600c371f6fc071d.xml Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
