Corinna Vinschen: > aputerguy: >> Is it best to leave it that way or would it be better to set it to something >> like LANG=en-US.UTF-8 (or even C) > > Not necessary. As described in the User's Guide, the default locale > in the absence of a LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG variable is "C.UTF-8".
I'd still recommend to set it to en_US.UTF-8 though, because that's least likely to cause issues with any programs that have their own ideas about locales. (Others of course will want to replace 'en_US' with their language and country.) Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
