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From 8b74fb5abd8e08f3b1e5cc2847b9650e94abe616 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: Jan Chaloupka <jchaloup@redhat.com>
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 22:52:57 +0200
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Subject: [PATCH] Latin1 default UTF-8 recommended encoding
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---
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man-pages/man3/nl_langinfo.3 | 7 +++++++
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man-pages/man7/charsets.7 | 2 ++
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2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/man-pages/man3/nl_langinfo.3 b/man-pages/man3/nl_langinfo.3
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index e38614d..3962a6a 100644
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--- a/man-pages/man3/nl_langinfo.3
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+++ b/man-pages/man3/nl_langinfo.3
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@@ -113,6 +113,13 @@ next call to
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.BR nl_langinfo ()
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or
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.BR setlocale (3).
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+.PP
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+Codeset for en_US defaults to ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1).
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+The Latin-1 default has historical reasons,
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+since all Unix systems originally used only 8-bit character encoding.
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+For more information about ISO-8859-1 see
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+.BR charsets (7).
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+
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.SH CONFORMING TO
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SUSv2, POSIX.1-2001.
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.SH EXAMPLE
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diff --git a/man-pages/man7/charsets.7 b/man-pages/man7/charsets.7
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index 05ff56c..45fd5ad 100644
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--- a/man-pages/man7/charsets.7
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+++ b/man-pages/man7/charsets.7
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@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ ASCII, GB 2312, ISO 8859, JIS, KOI8-R, KS, and Unicode.
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The primary emphasis is on character sets that were actually used by
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locale character sets, not the myriad others that could be found in data
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from other systems.
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+.LP
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+The recommended encoding in all settings and locales is UTF-8.
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.SS ASCII
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ASCII (American Standard Code For Information Interchange) is the original
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7-bit character set, originally designed for American English.
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--
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1.9.3
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