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On 10/4/2011 8:45 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> However, one issue is that windows basically will always have SOME
> setting -- even if just "English".  Which would cause locale to report
> 'en_US' or something.  So you'd never actually SEE the "default default"
> of C.UTF-8 take effect.

You'd see it if you unset LANG and an application calls 
setlocale(LC_ALL, "").  Linux is similar.  In Fedora 14, for instance, 
the standard startup files set LANG via /etc/sysconfig/i18n; but there 
is also a "default default" of C that's used if you unset LANG.

Ken

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