Why is "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" the default in Fedora
Eric Wood
eric at interplas.com
Thu May 20 13:09:38 UTC 2004
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ernest L. Williams Jr."
> 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?
Any time I use sed or grep on my script I make sure to set LANG=c first.
US.UTF-8 slows grep searches *way* down. It was so slow that I thought I
had hardware problems - nope, just unicode slowing down my scripts.
-eric wood
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