>>>>> 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.
> I think those users (and that includes myself) should then set LANG > to something more appropriate to their use case. And why should we set the default to an US locale then? IMHO something like LANG=C LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 would be much less intrusive if you just want UTF-8, without influencing other i18n variables. Ulrich
