Yes. I'd prefer C locale by default.
Usage of other locales seems to incur many issues. Those who know about
locale and want it are usually prepared to turn it on and use it given some
documentation. Those who don't should get C locale.
Link.
At 10:48 AM 4/18/2003 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>I recall someone floating a proposal that initdb should by default
>initialize the database in C locale, not whatever-it-finds-in-the-
>environment. To get a non-C locale you'd have to give an explicit
>command-line switch --- essentially, reversing the sense of the present
>"initdb --no-locale" option.
>
>I'm beginning to think that would be a good idea, given the increasing
>prevalence of en_US as a platform locale setting. Comments?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
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