On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 20:16, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > the locale "C" is meant to be the default, it always works, safe locale. The > name "C" comes from the programming language C. Basically the default locale > should allow you to code a C app without causing issues when given to someone > else (weird control chars in the comments, etc). > > en_US is specifically English, United States. > > My suspicion is one of two things, possibly linked is occuring. > > 1) Red Hat sets the locale to en_US by default now so it is always enabled in > glibc even if you switch locales > > 2) there was a glibc change which made locale generating ugly unless your > locale was set to something other than "C" > > That either of these is the real reason for not using "C" is rampant > speculation. > Thank's. That was informative...:-)
Cheers, Helgi Örn -- ~~~~~ This message is digitally signed-GPG key at: ~~~~ ~ <http://www.sacred-eagle.com/gnupg_public_key.html> ~
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