On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > We're ignoring a very basic question here... what problems does > shipping with a POSIX locale cause that would be fixed by setting a UTF8 > default locale??? I want a real answer. Not something along the lines > of "But daddy, all the other kids are doing it". >
Try reading the rest of the thread before posting a rant. Diego mentioned the python issue. As well, there are many test suites that malfunction without a UTF-8 or en_US.UTF-8 locale. If you hunt through Bugzilla, you can probably dig up other issues.