<div dir="ltr">Hola! I am in section 7.13 and am now attempting to figure out my
locale. I live in the United States and speak English.... well not
British English, but anyways! So I run 'locale -a' and get this list: I
am told the first two letters represent the language and the second two
letters represent the country. but what about the characters after that?
in my particular case I would choose en_US, en_US.iso88591, or
en_US.utf8. If I remember correctly from what I've seen I should select
en_US.iso88591 but I am not sure. I also would like to know what the
differences are between the three and why I should select one over the
other... if that is not two much trouble... okay after a little more
looking found that:<br>
<br> <span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> The only difference between <code>en_US</code> and <code>en_US.utf8</code> is that the former uses ISO-8859-1 for a character set, while the latter uses UTF-8. <strong>Prefer UTF-8.</strong>
The only difference in these is in what characters they are capable of
representing. ISO-8859-1 represents characters common to many Americans
(the English alphabet, plus a few letters with accents), whereas UTF-8
encodes all of Unicode, and thus, just about any language you can think
of. UTF-8, today, is a defacto standard encoding for text. (Which is why
you should prefer it.)</span><br>
<br><div>I am assuming from the previous text (found <a href="http://serverfault.com/questions/605776/linux-locale-en-us-utf-8-vs-en-us" target="_blank">here</a>) that en_US is an alias for en_US.iso88591 . It seems I am correct in that assumption: <br>
'LC_ALL=en_US locale charmap' reveals<br>ISO-8859-1<br></div><div>I am thinking it is an alias! Am I correct?<br></div><br><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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