On 27 Jan 2012, at 02:14, Bruno Haible wrote: > - On MacOS X nearly all users are working in the "C" locale. If a user > has told the OS that he's working in the French locale, the OS does > not set LC_* variables to indicate this, nor does the user usually > do so (why should he? he has already specified it once). Therefore > the normal situation on MacOS X is this: > $ env | grep LC_ > $ locale > LANG= > LC_COLLATE="C" > LC_CTYPE="C" > LC_MESSAGES="C" > LC_MONETARY="C" > LC_NUMERIC="C" > LC_TIME="C" > LC_ALL=
This has been changed in OS X 10.7: $ env | grep LC_ LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 $ locale LANG= LC_COLLATE="C" LC_CTYPE="UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_ALL= Hans
