On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:56:40PM +0800, Ben wrote: > 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.
According to our localization guide, there is a safe default that forces UTF-8 characters but doesn't force any language. I have the following single line in /etc/env.d/02locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 What do you think? William
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