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From 8b74fb5abd8e08f3b1e5cc2847b9650e94abe616 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Chaloupka <jchaloup@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 22:52:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Latin1 default UTF-8 recommended encoding

---
 man-pages/man3/nl_langinfo.3 | 7 +++++++
 man-pages/man7/charsets.7    | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man-pages/man3/nl_langinfo.3 b/man-pages/man3/nl_langinfo.3
index e38614d..3962a6a 100644
--- a/man-pages/man3/nl_langinfo.3
+++ b/man-pages/man3/nl_langinfo.3
@@ -113,6 +113,13 @@ next call to
 .BR nl_langinfo ()
 or
 .BR setlocale (3).
+.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 CONFORMING TO
 SUSv2, POSIX.1-2001.
 .SH EXAMPLE
diff --git a/man-pages/man7/charsets.7 b/man-pages/man7/charsets.7
index 05ff56c..45fd5ad 100644
--- a/man-pages/man7/charsets.7
+++ b/man-pages/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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