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Re: C library



On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 20:16, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> the locale "C" is meant to be the default, it always works, safe locale.  The
> name "C" comes from the programming language C.  Basically the default locale
> should allow you to code a C app without causing issues when given to someone
> else (weird control chars in the comments, etc).
> 
> en_US is specifically English, United States.
> 
> My suspicion is one of two things, possibly linked is occuring.
> 
> 1) Red Hat sets the locale to en_US by default now so it is always enabled in
> glibc even if you switch locales
> 
> 2) there was a glibc change which made locale generating ugly unless your
> locale was set to something other than "C"
> 
> That either of these is the real reason for not using "C" is rampant
> speculation.
> 
Thank's.
That was informative...:-)

Cheers,
Helgi Örn

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