X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:59:09 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Should LANG be set or left unset? Message-ID: <20100114185909.GL14511@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <27165212 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <27165212.post@talk.nabble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Jan 14 09:43, aputerguy wrote: > > I notice that by default LANG is unset. LANG is set by default, see /etc/profile.d/lang.*. If there are no such files, see /etc/default/profile.d/lang.*. They come with the latest base-files package. > Is it best to leave it that way or would it be better to set it to something > like LANG=en-US.UTF-8 (or even C) Not necessary. As described in the User's Guide, the default locale in the absence of a LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG variable is "C.UTF-8". Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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