To be honest, most of my recent experience is with Gentoo, where the default is C locale, but it is best to configure Unicode locales and flags as early as possible.
@everyone: do the mainline distros make u pick a locale/encoding at install time?
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From: bryanm@acsalaska.net
Date: Thu, Jun 30, 2011 10:55 am
Subject: [aklug] Re: What should I consider before doing an install?
To: <aklug@aklug.org>
On Wed, June 29, 2011 11:30 am, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Will i be using raid (now or in the future)?
>
> Do i want to use full disk encryption?
>
> Do i know how to properly set up full unicode support, within the context of
> my distro?
>
> Do i plan on doing software development? (affects choice of distro and choice
> of repositories)
>
> If u were into gentoo i could give more tips... :)
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Thanks for the additions!
Is Unicode something that needs to be set up during the install?
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