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Date: | Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:12:01 +0000 |
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Subject: | Re: Should LANG be set or left unset? |
From: | Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com> |
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Corinna Vinschen: > aputerguy: >> Is it best to leave it that way or would it be better to set it to somet= hing >> like LANG=3Den-US.UTF-8 (or even C) > > Not necessary. =C2=A0As described in the User's Guide, the default locale > in the absence of a LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG variable is "C.UTF-8". I'd still recommend to set it to en_US.UTF-8 though, because that's least likely to cause issues with any programs that have their own ideas about locales. (Others of course will want to replace 'en_US' with their language and country.) Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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