Re: UTF-8 in jessie

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2013-08-12 20:14:30 +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> What about locales though?
> 
> * C.utf8 locale should be always available
> * C.utf8 locale should be the default/fallback locale
> * utf8 locale variants should be default / available / preferred
> (where appropriate)

If scripts intend to use LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 to force everything to
the standard locale with UTF-8 support, then the glibc should
be modified to regard C.UTF-8 like C w.r.t. $LANGUAGE. I mean:

xvii% LANGUAGE=fr_FR LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 cp
cp: opérande de fichier manquant
Saisissez « cp --help » pour plus d'informations.
xvii% LANGUAGE=fr_FR LC_ALL=C cp      
cp: missing file operand
Try 'cp --help' for more information.

Both should have output in English.

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