On 20/02/2012 00:11, William Hubbs wrote:
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
That looks good but perhaps it should also define LANG=POSIX, which is
similar to Ulrich's proposal. Something like:
# To configure for your region, set LANG to an appropriate locale, then
comment
# or remove LC_CTYPE. Run "locale -a" to obtain a list of available locales.
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8
I know that adding LANG=POSIX doesn't do anything in this case but I
have a feeling that its presence would be instructive to new users. If a
user is asked to configure something which isn't present, it often
generates questions which might otherwise be avoided. I've changed
"en_US.UTF-8" to "en_US.utf8" there for similar reasons.
Not to mention that, if one is curious and searches for "posix locale"
via Google, the first link is for the Open Group specification :)
I reckon that this, along with some basic information in the handbook,
would be a step in the right direction.
--Kerin
