Why is "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" the default in Fedora
Chris Kloiber
ckloiber at ckloiber.com
Thu May 20 09:56:50 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 12:01, John Morris wrote:
> 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.
Don't forget to search for/file a bugzilla for every "LANG=C <program>"
you issue if you want it fixed, too. (Don't bother with acroread though,
not our code).
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Chris Kloiber
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