Why is "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" the default in Fedora
John Morris
jmorris at beau.org
Thu May 20 04:01:52 UTC 2004
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.
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.
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