[gentoo-dev] Re: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default

2012-02-20 Thread Kerin Millar
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 p

[gentoo-dev] Re: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default

2012-02-19 Thread Kerin Millar
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

[gentoo-dev] Re: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default

2012-02-19 Thread Kerin Millar
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

[gentoo-dev] Re: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default

2012-02-19 Thread Kerin Millar
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

[gentoo-dev] Re: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default

2012-02-17 Thread Kerin Millar
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