Re: Why is "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" the default in Fedora

["Ernest L. Williams Jr." <ernesto ornl gov>]

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 00:01, John Morris wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> 
> > Many applications seem to have a problem with the default locale in
> > Fedora. (e.g. adobe acrobat reader)
> > 
> > Why is the default US.UTF-8?
> 
> Because RH is hellbent on making Unicode the standard encoding.  Like 
> their previous attempts at getting out in front of an emerging standard it 
> tends to break a lot of things.  But because it is breaking in such a high 
> profile distro it gets fixed.  See GCC, GLIBC, ELF, pthreads, SELinux, 
> etc.
Okay,  I will hang in there.

> 
> In the end it is going to be a good thing if you live outside the US or
> are RedHat and want to sell products and services outside the US.  But for
> now expect to do a lot of "LANG=C <programname>" to workaround the
> problems or edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n.
Could "/etc/sysconfig/i18n" be handled at install time?




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