Bug#138468: locale warnings while extracting base

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 16:43, Matt Kraai wrote:
> According to the LI18NUX2000 SPEC, with Amendament 3 [sic],
> UTF-8 coded character set should be usable under the `C' locale.

I looked at the document and I think you are misreading it.  My
interpretation is that it requires implementations to provide UTF-8 as
an option under the "af_ZA ... zh_TW" locales.  (In other words, the
effect you would get if you wrote "en_US UTF-8" in /etc/locale.gen.)

The specification of the C locale seems pretty clear that only 7-bit
ASCII is admitted.  See, for example,
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xbd/locale.html#tag_005_003

p.