On Nov 10, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > --- On Wed, 10/11/10, Ken Thomases <k...@codeweavers.com> wrote: > >> Are you sure about that? Checking on a couple of >> Linux systems here, the "locale" command reports: >> >> $ locale >> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" >> ... > > mine (fedora x86_64) does the utf8 thing: > > # locale > LANG=en_GB.utf8 > LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8" > ... > > so there is some truth in the reporter's assertion - what it means is that it > varies between different linux'es!!!
I should have been clearer. The output just reflects your environment. So, you have LANG set to en_GB.utf8. I had LANG set to en_US.UTF-8. My only point was to say that the "UTF-8" form is acceptable. It was not to suggest that "utf8" is not, nor that one or the other is a standard. The real question is: does the Linux C library accept 'UTF-8' in the environment variables? I believe it does, which is useful because that's what Mac OS X requires. (It doesn't accept "utf8".) For example, the following reports just fine on some Linux systems here: LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 locale As does your case: LC_ALL=en_GB.utf8 locale But the following both produce some diagnostics indicating that the C library is choking on the value: LC_ALL=en_GB.bogus locale LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-9 locale I take this to mean it's a legitimate test of whether a value is valid. Further, it indicates that (at least some) Linuxes take either form. Regards, Ken
