Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?
2008/5/6 Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz>:
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:23:41PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>
>> Check that "en_NZ.UTF-8" is a legal locale on your machine, and that
>> it should not be "en_NZ.utf8". The -a flag on the locale command will
>> show you. On my machine, the "utf" letters are lowercase:
>> hardy2@hardy2-laptop:~$ locale -a
>> C
>> en_DK.utf8
>> en_GB.utf8
>> en_US.utf8
>> he_IL.utf8
>> POSIX
>
> locale -a gives:
> C
> en_NZ
> en_NZ.iso88591
> en_NZ.utf8
> en_US
> en_US.iso88591
> mi_NZ
> mi_NZ.iso885913
> mi_NZ.utf8
> POSIX
>
> But locale gives:
>
> LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_NZ.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_NZ.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_NZ.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE=C
> LC_MONETARY="en_NZ.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_NZ.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_NZ.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_NZ.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_NZ.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_NZ.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_NZ.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_NZ.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
>
> I picked the locale using dpkg-reconfigure locales
>
Actually, I've now noticed the same phenomenon on my own box.
Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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