[arch-general] locale.conf

Mantas Mikulėnas grawity at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 07:46:54 EDT 2012


On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Jesse Juhani Jaara
<jesse.jaara at gmail.com> wrote:
> Also you can probably disable en_US completely. Most applications use
> english as the build in locale (locale C), so there is no need to enable
> it, as faar as I have understood.

This is right, but the "C" locale uses US-ASCII, not UTF-8 (although
Debian has "C.UTF-8").

So I would /not/ recommend setting "C" as $LANG. (Or as anything else,
except $LC_COLLATE).

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Mantas Mikulėnas


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