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Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'



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Derek Martin wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:48:28AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have
>>  happened.
> 
> Well, I don't think that is or should be a requirement...  I
> mean, why limit that idea to just the Euro symbol?

Said nothing about "limit" and "only".  The point was that when US
h/w is internationalized enough to have foreign symbols on it,
typing them will be, by default, mundane.

Until then, console apps (and thus the OS) won't be UTF-friendly.

>                                                     Why not
> include the Yen, or the Korean Won, the British pound (they're
> still using their own money, aren't they?), not to mention the
> thousands of other symbols used by other cultures...
> 
>> P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird?
>> 
> 
> Copy-paste from a web page or other source which has it?  I keep
> a file in my home directory with a few common symbols that are
> hard or impossible to type with a US keyboard:

That's

> ? ? ? ¥ £ ¤ × ÷ © ® ° ± ² ³ · ? ? ? ? ? ?
> 
>> P.P.S. - How do you do the same from the console?
> 
> No idea...
> 


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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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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