On 19 February 2012 23:14, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> 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_COLLATE=C > >> This offers the best default options to the majority of users, and >> is easy to customize for those who wish to use another locale. > > At least, LC_NUMERIC=C should be added to this, otherwise numbers will > be formatted with commas as thousands separators. > > Also en_US.UTF-8 for LC_MEASUREMENT and LC_PAPER means imperial units > and letter paper, which isn't optimal for users outside of the U.S. > > Ulrich >
I think those users (and that includes myself) should then set LANG to something more appropriate to their use case. Ben
