On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 04:29:42PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote > Every locale is wrong for somebody; the idea was that by taking > a survey, you could make it wrong for the least amount of people > (by default).
Question... has anybody ever considered that maybe a POSIX locale is wrong for the least amount of people??? There's also a very damning statement in the post that started this thread... On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:39:59PM +0200, Sascha Cunz wrote > I recently discovered that I for some reason haven't noticed the > warning about setting the locale to utf-8 in the gentoo handbook for > obviously several years; thus i was still running all my systems in > a POSIX locale since i never cared much about it. > > However, since I noticed, I talked to several people about it; all > of them stating as first response: "Not shipping with a utf-8 locale > turned on by default nowadays probably is a bug in your distro" That's right... the poster was running a POSIX locale for several years ***AND DID NOT HAVE ANY PROBLEMS RELATED TO IT***. Then "several people said" "Not shipping with a utf-8 locale turned on by default nowadays probably is a bug in your distro". And suddenly it's a problem. What's next? Despite running with no problems for many years with a separate /usr and no initramfs, will we have "several people" come along and tell us that it's a bug in our distro? Oh... wait... The fact that "other distros do it" does not constitute justification for us to do it. If I wanted to run Redhat or Ubuntu, I'd run Redhat or Ubuntu. We're ignoring a very basic question here... what problems does shipping with a POSIX locale cause that would be fixed by setting a UTF8 default locale??? I want a real answer. Not something along the lines of "But daddy, all the other kids are doing it". -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
