[PLUG] Appropriate LANG locale

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Wed Feb 3 23:31:37 UTC 2010


On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Carlos Konstanski wrote:

>>> I usually do
>>>
>>> LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
>>> LC_COLLATE="C"
>>
>> Paul,
>>
>>   Does it matter if it's "UTF-8" or "utf-8"?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rich
>
> I believe the answer is Neither. It should be utf8.

Hmm. I thought the official designation for the charmap in question 
was UTF-8.

In any event, I'm just going by what Red Hat and Debian set as their 
default (for en_US environments).

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