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locale: Replace <quote> with <literal> for locale specifiers

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Prevent ambigious quoted punctuations.
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Xi Ruoyao 2024-01-28 18:36:16 +08:00
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<screen role="nodump"><userinput>locale -a</userinput></screen>
<para>Charmaps can have a number of aliases, e.g., <quote>ISO-8859-1</quote>
is also referred to as <quote>iso8859-1</quote> and <quote>iso88591.</quote>
<para>Charmaps can have a number of aliases, e.g.,
<literal>ISO-8859-1</literal> is also referred to as
<literal>iso8859-1</literal> and <literal>iso88591</literal>.
Some applications cannot handle the various synonyms correctly (e.g., require
that <quote>UTF-8</quote> is written as <literal>UTF-8,</literal> not
that <literal>UTF-8</literal> is written as <literal>UTF-8</literal>, not
<literal>utf8</literal>), so it is the safest in most
cases to choose the canonical name for a particular locale. To determine
the canonical name, run the following command, where <replaceable>&lt;locale
name&gt;</replaceable> is the output given by <command>locale -a</command> for
your preferred locale (<quote>en_GB.iso88591</quote> in our example).</para>
your preferred locale (<literal>en_GB.iso88591</literal> in our
example).</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>LC_ALL=<replaceable>&lt;locale name&gt;</replaceable> locale charmap</userinput></screen>
<para>For the <quote>en_GB.iso88591</quote> locale, the above command
<para>For the <literal>en_GB.iso88591</literal> locale, the above command
will print:</para>
<screen><computeroutput>ISO-8859-1</computeroutput></screen>
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doesn't work in the chroot environment. It can only
be used after the LFS system is booted with systemd.</para></note>
<para>The <quote>C</quote> (default) and <quote>en_US</quote> (the recommended
one for United States English users) locales are different. <quote>C</quote>
<para>The <literal>C</literal> (default) and <literal>en_US</literal>
(the recommended one for United States English users) locales are
different. <literal>C</literal>
uses the US-ASCII 7-bit character set, and treats bytes with the high bit set
as invalid characters. That's why, e.g., the <command>ls</command> command
substitutes them with question marks in that locale. Also, an attempt to send
mail with such characters from Mutt or Pine results in non-RFC-conforming
messages being sent (the charset in the outgoing mail is indicated as <quote>unknown
8-bit</quote>). It's suggested that you use the <quote>C</quote> locale only
messages being sent (the charset in the outgoing mail is indicated as
<computeroutput>unknown 8-bit</computeroutput>). It's suggested that you
use the <literal>C</literal> locale only
if you are certain that you will never need 8-bit characters.</para>
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