Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 02/14/2011 04:26 PM, The Fungi wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:57:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > It doesn't seem to work for me.
> [...]
> > $ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 python -c 'print u"\u00a3"'
> > 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)
> [...]
> > $ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 perl -e 'print "\x{00a3}\n";'
> > perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> > 	LANGUAGE = (unset),
> > 	LC_ALL = (unset),
> > 	LC_CTYPE = "en_GB.utf-8",
> > 	LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
> >      are supported and installed on your system.
> > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> [...]
>
> You probably don't have an en_GB.utf-8 locale (maybe you have
> localepurge installed?). I bet en_US.utf-8 will net you different
> results.

That's it...

$ LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf-8 python -c 'print u"\u00a3"'
£

$ LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf-8 perl -e 'print "\x{00a3}\n";'
£

No localepurge, but when initially building the system, I only 
installed one or two locales.

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