I usually worked with Debian GNU/Linux
, and UTF-8 locale with no translations was called C.UTF-8
. I assumed, this is de-facto name for such locale. Recently, I was installing Gentoo GNU/Linux
distribution (profile default/linux/amd64/17.0
) and discovered that such locale is called C.utf8
there.
Why it is so? What is the reason for such incompatibility? Is it simple way to get UTF-8 untranslated locale, that works across all (or at least, glibc-based) distributions?