* Roger Leigh
| Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > * Roger Leigh
| >
| > | - When UTF-8 is the default locale, it shouldn't need a .UTF-8 suffix,
| > | e.g. en_GB will be UTF-8, and en_GB.ISO-8859-1 will be Latin-1 (the
| > | opposite way round to the current situation which creates
| > | en_GB.UTF-8 and en_GB [Latin-1]).
| >
| > Eh? You can't change that around just like that, it will break in the
| > cases where people ssh in from machines with latin1 locales for
| > instance (and use the PassEnv feature of newer SSHs).
|
| IMHO if you want features like that to work, you should be fully
| qualifying your locale. en_GB on its own has always meant "British
| English", in whatever locale the system administrator set as the
| default, and the same applies to all unqualified locales.
No, it haven't. Read /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED which is what locales
are supported in what locale from glibc.
| I've used UTF-8 default locales for several years now, i.e.
| [/etc/locale.gen]
| en_GB UTF-8
That gives you undefined behaviour which may or may not work (by
accident).
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