On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 02:04:00PM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: > > Legitimate locales are those installed with glibc. These can be shown > with either "eselect locale list" or "locale -a".
Having never used eselect with locales (AFAIR) before today. Why does "locale -a" return utf8? I know UTF-8 is accepted as standard, utf8 is not but usually recognized, but want to understand why "locale -a" output omits the standard, which is set on my systems, and differs from the others: o@workstation ~ $ eselect locale list Available targets for the LANG variable: [1] C [2] POSIX [3] en_US.utf8 [4] en_US.UTF-8 * [ ] (free form) mingdao@workstation ~ $ locale -a C POSIX en_US.utf8 mingdao@workstation ~ $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= Cheers, Bruce -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
