On 01/08/12||14:11, Mauro Santos wrote: > On 01-08-2012 13:09, Arno Gaboury wrote: > > On 01/08/12||14:46, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Jesse Juhani Jaara > >> <jesse.jaara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> Also you can probably disable en_US completely. Most applications use > >>> english as the build in locale (locale C), so there is no need to enable > >>> it, as faar as I have understood. > >> > >> This is right, but the "C" locale uses US-ASCII, not UTF-8 (although > >> Debian has "C.UTF-8"). > >> > >> So I would /not/ recommend setting "C" as $LANG. (Or as anything else, > >> except $LC_COLLATE). > >> > >> -- > >> Mantas Mikulėnas > > > > OK, thnak you for your answer. I thought I had to write more lines in > > locale.conf because of all my locale.gen. > > So I sticked to basic : > > LANG=en_US.UTF8 > > LC_COLLATE=C > > > > As suggested, I commented in locale.gen all ISO files, except the one > > with the euro symbol, and decided to let english. > > > > Regards. > > > > Unless I forgot to read some post I guess no one stated what seems to me > to be the most straightforward way of doing it. > > If you have your system working to your preference (before having > anything in locale.conf), check the output of 'locale' and copy it to > locale.conf. > > -- > Mauro Santos Mauro, you are right as I am still confused! Most of my readings let me to just write: LANG=en_US.UTF8 LC_COLLATE=C But by curiousity, I am now trying LANG=fr_CH.UTF8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 and will see in the coming days if any issue arrise. I thought the answer to my question would be more trivial, but I was wrong! Thank you again. Regards.
