Locales (WAS: How important are ISO standards)

[Matej Cepl]

On 2008-02-14, 11:47 GMT, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
> LC_MESSAGES=C
> LC_COLLATE=C
> LC_TIME=C
> ...
>
> Certainly it works for English only, because "C locale" is English by 
> its nature.

and C locale is not UTF-8 but us-ascii.

Matěj