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Message-ID: <20160602150315.GK10893@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 11:03:15 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: How to set UTF-8 as default
On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 04:50:13PM +0200, FRIGN wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 13:05:40 +0200
> Remko Tronçon <remko@...tramo.be> wrote:
>
> Hey Remko,
>
> > I tried setting LC_CTYPE and LC_ALL to C.UTF-8, but this doesn't seem to
> > get picked up by `nl_langinfo` (or by `setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL)`).
>
> yeah, because that's wrong. You either use the C-locale (ASCII international)
> or use the locales standard definition using e.g. en_US.UTF-8.
> To get a "clean" UTF-8 environment, use (provided you have locales)
>
> export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
> export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
This isn't necessary and will possibly do more than the user wants in
the future, once LC_MONETARY and LC_COLLATE have non-stub
functionality. Wanting UTF-8 to work does not mean you want US dollars
or English collation order, etc.
Rich
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