Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical? (was: Re: RFA: all my packages)

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Josselin Mouette writes ("Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical? (was: Re: RFA: all my packages)"):
> Kicking out software that doesn?t work at all in UTF-8 locales and
> requires the user to set a broken locale, OTOH, sounds like a sanitary
> emergency.

Excellent, I look forward to the removal of python.  I always hated
that language anyway.

$ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 python -c 'print u"\u00a3"'
<unicode pound sign>
$

But

$ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 python -c 'print u"\u00a3"' | cat 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa3' in
position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
$

Ian.