Re: UTF-8 default

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

Quoting Steinar H. Gunderson (sgunderson@bigfoot.com):
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any reason why UTF-8 seems to be the default in Debian nowadays? I
> installed sid with d-i (current businesscard as of 2004-07-21) and noticed
> that LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (a locale that was not even generated); this
> confused aterm and probably other applications.
> 
> A friend of mine installed sarge with d-i today (ie. current businesscard as
> of 2004-07-22) and now his x-chat is suddenly spewing out UTF-8 on IRC. Are
> we copying Red Hat's classic bugs here? :-)


I just ran a complete base system install with English as language and
Norway as country, like you mentioned me. 20040722 netinst sif_d-i
(sarge_d-i is very likely to have similar result)

At the end of the install, neither root nor the created user have any
locale set up.

When doing dpkg-reconfigure locales, I find that the only generated
locale is en_US.ISO-8859-1 (the UTF-8 flavour is not checked) with
"None" as default locale.

So, I don't really know why your friend install ended with the
en_US.UTF-8 but it does not seems to be because of d-i.....