-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Xeno Campanoli wrote: > I've wondered about that. Why aren't "modern" systems just > moving straight to Unicode?
UTF-8 *is* Unicode. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 > Derek Martin wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:01:21PM +0700, Surachai Locharoen >> wrote: >> >>> I just want to know 'LANG=C' what does it mean? Normally, I >>> see LANG is set to laguage which exist in the real world such >>> as en, th, fr. >>> >> >> The LANG variable sets the user's locale, which tells the >> system what language and local conventions for things like >> time, money, numbers, etc. the user prefers to use. The >> primary importance of this is to tell the system what character >> set the user is using (and therefore what characters the user >> can see on terminals, and such.) >> >> Modern systems are moving to UTF-8 environments, which makes >> the language part mostly irrelevant; it can display (almost) >> all characters in all supported languages, regardless of what >> language the user is using. However, ancient Unix systems used >> a locale of 'C', which uses the character set US-ASCII, and >> sorts things (like directory entries, for example) according to >> the ASCII sequence of characters. See the man page for locale >> in seciont 5 of the man pages for details: >> >> $ man 5 locale - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEnqrqS9HxQb37XmcRAmAUAJ47qDWmB3DVxBeIm45q2ntrYUWqXQCcD33M n+QLdLAPEbqnoSxB8BYqSmM= =bn/k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
