Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'
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Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> I've wondered about that. Why aren't "modern" systems just
> moving straight to Unicode?
UTF-8 *is* Unicode. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
> Derek Martin wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:01:21PM +0700, Surachai Locharoen
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I just want to know 'LANG=C' what does it mean? Normally, I
>>> see LANG is set to laguage which exist in the real world such
>>> as en, th, fr.
>>>
>>
>> The LANG variable sets the user's locale, which tells the
>> system what language and local conventions for things like
>> time, money, numbers, etc. the user prefers to use. The
>> primary importance of this is to tell the system what character
>> set the user is using (and therefore what characters the user
>> can see on terminals, and such.)
>>
>> Modern systems are moving to UTF-8 environments, which makes
>> the language part mostly irrelevant; it can display (almost)
>> all characters in all supported languages, regardless of what
>> language the user is using. However, ancient Unix systems used
>> a locale of 'C', which uses the character set US-ASCII, and
>> sorts things (like directory entries, for example) according to
>> the ASCII sequence of characters. See the man page for locale
>> in seciont 5 of the man pages for details:
>>
>> $ man 5 locale
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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