[Techtalk] locales

[Clayton]

> I am trying to decide if I should use en-US, en-US.ISO.8859-15, or
> en-US.UTF-8. I tried googling and looking at the debian website, but
> couldn't find anything very useful. How does one decide which locale to
> use for the defualt?

Tough question :-)  The short answer is that ISO 8859-1 (and -15) is a
subset of UTF-8.

The only real advantage I have ever seen with UTF-8 is when you want
to use lots of odd/obscure extended characters beyond the ASCII chars
you're typically used to.

I tend to opt for ISO 8859-15.  Good character coverage (esp for
Western European chars) plus the Euro symbol.

C.