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Yeah, I think those are just lacking in the internationalisation?
People like me, who at most have some reading glasses needs and have their computer set to generally English utf-8 will be likely be fine.
Interesting point. I don't actually know about that. What can the GNU coreutils do with regard to internationalization? Just the output of commands, or can they also internationalize stuff like command args?
I'm generally an
en_*.UTF-8user (even trieden_DK.UTF-8for a bit for a reason we'll come back to), so I don't have a complete picture of it and would have to go look at the documentation or source for that, but I'd expecten_DK.UTF-8should give you ISO8601-formatted dates, if I can't have that I at least want DD/MM/YYYY; the US-american nonsense is just plain unacceptableaato be sorted aså, the Swedes have …zåöä, the Germans …zäöü, the Turks will want ı and İ sorted and upper/lowercased correctly, and there are some options around how you deal with "foreign" letters and diacritics.LC_*that I can't think of off the top of my headbut in any case, an
ls -loutput should be different depending on your locale, and in ways you likely don't even think about as long as it looks normal.