Why is LANG set to en_US.UTF-8?
Aleksandar Milivojevic
amilivojevic at pbl.ca
Wed Jan 19 20:34:59 UTC 2005
Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at pbl.ca> said:
>
>>Usually I have it set to just "C" (default POSIX locale). I hate when
>>ls intermix dot files with "normal" files in ls -a output, and don't
>>like lower/upercase being ignored when sorting either. Setting LANG to
>>C solves both problems :-)
>
>
> Since all you are complaining about here is ordering (not charset or
> language issues), you should just change the ordering. LC_COLLATE=C
> works just fine while keeping all the magic goodness that is
> en_US.UTF-8.
I can't say that I noticed any difference (other than ordering in ls
output) between C and en_US.UTF-8. Russian and Chinesee spam is
displayed properly this way or the other.
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Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at pbl.ca> Pollard Banknote Limited
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