[Fwd: [Fwd: Re: Why Red Hat Linux is slow]]

[Chuck Mead]

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Subject: Re: Why Red Hat Linux is slow
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:16:57 -0500
From: Havoc Pennington <hp at redhat.com>
Reply-To: tech-list at redhat.com
To: tech-list at redhat.com
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On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 10:35, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
| >
| > - - UTF-8 by default throughout the OS, including in the boot scripts;
| > this
| >   means odd and/or non-optimized collation rules etc. make sure you set
| > "LANG=C" instead of "LANG=en_US.utf8".

You should administer cluebat here - LANG=C is a bad idea. What they
want is LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 (our previous default).

LANG=C isn't 8-bit clean basically, while the Latin-1 locales are.
Non-ASCII chars are considered "invalid" in LANG=C.

That said, I think people are basically dumbasses if they don't see the
importance of Unicode. ;-) But this you may not want to pass on.

Havoc



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