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Re: Should LANG be set or left unset?


Corinna Vinschen:
> aputerguy:
>> Is it best to leave it that way or would it be better to set it to something
>> like LANG=en-US.UTF-8 (or even C)
>
> Not necessary. ÂAs described in the User's Guide, the default locale
> in the absence of a LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG variable is "C.UTF-8".

I'd still recommend to set it to en_US.UTF-8 though, because that's
least likely to cause issues with any programs that have their own
ideas about locales. (Others of course will want to replace 'en_US'
with their language and country.)

Andy

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