On Friday 18 July 2014 06:54:32 Mick wrote: > On Thursday 17 Jul 2014 23:48:51 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > This is my /etc/locale.gen: > > > > en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8 > > en_GB ISO-8859-1 > > en_GB.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15 > > > > I don't remember why I still have those last two entries; I expect they > > date from before Gentoo adopted UTF-8. Maybe I'll remove them and see > > what happens. > > The last line is for Western European ASCII character encodings, just like > en_GB ISO-8859-1, but with the Euro symbol and some other accented > characters missing from the latter.
Yes, I remember that, just not why I haven't ditched them since UTF-8 took over the world. > Nothing will happen if you remove the last two entries, because (I think) > that the UTF-8 character encodings cover all these. That's my uncertainty too. -- Regards Peter