<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">actually my system defaults to en_US.UTF-8;</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">also Xiphos works way better when source built; instead binary installed;</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div>
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On Wednesday, November 12th, 2025 at 13:21, Karl Kleinpaste <karl@kleinpaste.org> wrote:<br>
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oldschoolcowboy writes:<font face="FreeSerif"><br>
</font>> never mind; found it had to set it in Xiphos.<font face="FreeSerif"><br>
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Xiphos knows nothing of the "C" locale. Typical default in a US
system would be:<br>
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</font><font face="monospace">LANG=en_US.UTF-8<br>
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8</font><font face="FreeSerif"><br>
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I am ... surprised ... that your system defaults at any time to a
locale which is not a real locale.<br>
That is to say, "C" is sort of the null locale, where strings are
handled the most simplistically, i.e., no processing or
translation.</font>
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