[ale] locale settings

[mike at trausch.us (Michael B. Trausch)]

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 22:05 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Be aware that perls CPAN breaks with anything but LANG=C
> RedHat derivatives set LANG=en_US.utf8 which causes misery on CPAN.

Why in the world would it do that?  Isn't the C locale simply the 7-bit
ASCII standard?  en_US.UTF-8 is backwards compatible with that, given
that the first 127 characters are identical (and everything else over
the top is, of course, represented outside of that set)... so wouldn't
that be a bug?

	--- Mike

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