From 260d71520ec0c96ef20670eca17d7b08cc9601ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Nikola=20Forr=C3=B3?= <nforro@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:10:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] nl_langinfo.3: note that Latin-1 is the default codeset
 for en_US locale charsets.7: note that UTF-8 is the recommended encoding for
 all locales

---
 man3/nl_langinfo.3 | 6 ++++++
 man7/charsets.7    | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man3/nl_langinfo.3 b/man3/nl_langinfo.3
index e37f07b..63de5c2 100644
--- a/man3/nl_langinfo.3
+++ b/man3/nl_langinfo.3
@@ -167,6 +167,12 @@ or
 .PP
 POSIX specifies that the application may not modify
 the string returned by these functions.
+.PP
+Codeset for en_US defaults to ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1).
+The Latin-1 default has historical reasons,
+since all Unix systems originally used only 8-bit character encoding.
+For more information about ISO-8859-1 see
+.BR charsets (7).
 .SH ATTRIBUTES
 For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
 .BR attributes (7).
diff --git a/man7/charsets.7 b/man7/charsets.7
index 5f91784..9de88fe 100644
--- a/man7/charsets.7
+++ b/man7/charsets.7
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ ASCII, GB 2312, ISO 8859, JIS, KOI8-R, KS, and Unicode.
 The primary emphasis is on character sets that were actually used by
 locale character sets, not the myriad others that could be found in data
 from other systems.
+.LP
+The recommended encoding in all settings and locales is UTF-8.
 .SS ASCII
 ASCII (American Standard Code For Information Interchange) is the original
 7-bit character set, originally designed for American English.
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