Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

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Subject: Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'
From: Linas Žvirblis <0x0007@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:56:33 +0300
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Ron Johnson wrote:

> I thought C meant "plain *old* ASCII encoding, like what was used on
> the PDP computers that C was written on".

Well, yes, it is US English ASCII. But I have seen it being abused.

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