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Re: Should LANG be set or left unset?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:59:09 +0100
- Subject: Re: Should LANG be set or left unset?
- References: <27165212.post@talk.nabble.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jan 14 09:43, aputerguy wrote:
>
> I notice that by default LANG is unset.
LANG is set by default, see /etc/profile.d/lang.*. If there are no
such files, see /etc/default/profile.d/lang.*. They come with the
latest base-files package.
> 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. As described in the User's Guide, the default locale
in the absence of a LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG variable is "C.UTF-8".
Corinna
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