On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 6:08 PM, Eivind Nicolay Evensen < eivinde at terraplane.org> wrote:> However, since it was mentioned in a note starting with > "Add support for unicode collation" I most likely didn't even read it > since I'll never touch unicode. >If you ever use anything other than LANG=C, you *are* touching Unicode. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b at gmail.com ballbery at sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
> > However, since it was mentioned in a note starting with > > "Add support for unicode collation" I most likely didn't even read it > > since I'll never touch unicode. > > > > If you ever use anything other than LANG=C, you *are* touching Unicode.% echo $LANG LANG: Undefined variable. % echo $LC_CTYPE nb_NO.ISO8859-1 Works for me. But I did use a while to figure out what had happened between 10.3 and 11.1, since my Norwegian ??? suddenly stopped working (before changing LC_CTYPE to nb_NO.ISO8859-1). Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 01:03:01AM -0500, Brandon Allbery wrote:> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 6:08 PM, Eivind Nicolay Evensen < > eivinde at terraplane.org> wrote: > > > However, since it was mentioned in a note starting with > > "Add support for unicode collation" I most likely didn't even read it > > since I'll never touch unicode. > > > > If you ever use anything other than LANG=C, you *are* touching Unicode.Well, I don't see multibyte characters with 8859-1, and multibyte is what I don't tolerate. I didn't even know that unicode could be single-byte character only sets. -- Eivind