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Re: Bug#877900: How to get 24-hour time on en_US.UTF-8 locale now?



On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 09:59 -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 02:40:06PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > How would this locale differ from C.UTF-8? Is the only difference
> > that C.UTF-8 has strict lexicographical sorting, whereas "en" would
> > have
> > case-insensitive sorting like en_GB.utf8 does? (If that's the only
> > difference, then perhaps something like "LANG=C.utf8
> > LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8"
> > is enough.)
> 
> POSIX specifies the output format for various utilities in the C locale, 
> which defeats my understanding of the purpose of this proposal. So, for 
> example, in ls -l:

I don't think the "C.UTF-8" locale covered by any promises POSIX might
make for "C".  (Nor is what happens when no LC_*, LANG vairables are
set at all.)

Ansgar


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