[ale] locale settings

[Paul Cartwright]

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Michael B. Trausch wrote:
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> It's not _wrong_, per sé, but it is not the setting I would use.  UTF-8
> is a common, agreed-upon standard these days, and every operating system
> worth anything knows how to read text encoded that way, so its portable.
 I did.. I think.. set in my personal .bashrc
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> You should probably set it up so that it is en_US.UTF-8 so that you
> aren't relying on weird encodings for characters outside of the standard
> US-ASCII range, and that way people don't have to guess what encoding
> you're using.
 This is a Debian system, I never set anything except to tell it
English keyboard... Is there a global setting somehwere in a menu I
might have changed? some app changed it????????

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Paul Cartwright
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Registered Ubuntu User #12459
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