further research... am I correct?

[Michael Havens]

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:

   The only difference between en_US and en_US.utf8 is that the former uses
ISO-8859-1 for a character set, while the latter uses UTF-8. *Prefer UTF-8.*
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.)

I am assuming from the previous text (found here
<http://serverfault.com/questions/605776/linux-locale-en-us-utf-8-vs-en-us>)
that  en_US is an alias for en_US.iso88591 . It seems I am correct in that
assumption:
'LC_ALL=en_US locale charmap' reveals
ISO-8859-1
I am thinking it is an alias! Am I correct?

:-)~MIKE~(-:
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