Ulrich Mueller schrieb: > As I had pointed out before [1], changing from POSIX to an en_US > locale will have undesirable side effects, like commas as thousands > separators in numbers (because of LC_NUMERIC). Also the defaults of > en_US for LC_MEASUREMENT and LC_PAPER are only useful in the U.S. > > So if we change the default (but I still don't see the need), we > should go for a less intrusive setting like: > > LANG="POSIX" > LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
This would be better than LANG="en_US.utf8" but I would still prefer not to have any country/region attached to the locale. The C.UTF-8 locale which Debian uses for this purpose (a UTF-8 locale without side effects) appears more suitable to me. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
