On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:32:48 -0400, Dan B. wrote:
> In a locale setting such as en_US.UTF-8 (e.g., LANG=en_US.UTF-8), what
> exactly does the charset/character encoding part (UTF-8) affect?
>
> Which common programs (e.g., getty, xterm/etc., sed/grep?) do something
> different based on the charset portion of the local setting?
Debian's Reference Manual has a small section about that ("8.3.2.
Rationale for UTF-8 locale"):
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch08.en.html
Anyway, it seems that today everything and everybody is moving towards
unicode and utf-8.
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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