On 2012-05-24 23:20, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> > It’s
> > harmless and was always there. Have a look at the list in
> > “noprefs.c” to see that my locale en_US.utf8 isn’t there.
> 
> I would say that the proper name *is* actually UTF-8, not "utf8".

True, some rogue setting in my .xinitrc caused the lowercased
setting, now that I removed it the Fontforge complaint is gone.
Thanks for being that attentive.

> > I don’t have clue as to why on earth it should default to latin1
> 
> My guess: because an arbitrary input is valid latin1, but not
> necessary valid UTF-8.

True, although I don’t think there’s many systems left still
running a latin1 locale.

Good night
Philipp

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