as subject says could gentoo change the policy and set an UTF-8 environment by default?
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml how to do it very well but having it already set could have the following two advantages: 1) well utf-8 is everywhere, even the linux weekly newsletter has it in 2012 2) the user need to change, not to create a /etc/env.d/XX-lc, creating a standard place where every gentoo install has this settings. contra? P.S. would be nice to have a wd_WD.UTF-8 with WD standing for world, just a country is so 1900