Re: Feedback: Six Nautilus annoyances

["Patrick J. Volkerding" <volkerdi slackware com>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Owen Taylor wrote:
> But the extremely serious breakage with using LANG=C is that
> you are leaving characters with codes greater than 127 without
> any interpretation, so a system set up this way is only ever
> usable for the most basic ways to write English.

That explains a lot.

> I don't think GTK+ is more broken by LANG=C than other apps, but
> it is certainly by far happiest if the system locale is UTF-8,
> the same encoding as it uses internally. If you are going to
> switch the default encoding of Slackware, I'd really advise
> switching it to en_US.UTF-8 so you don't have to switch it
> again later.

...and en_US.UTF-8 seems to provide the same default sort order as C, as
far as I can tell.  :-)

Thanks very much for all the helpful information!

Take care,

Pat