Re: let's drop non-UTF-8 locales

[Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 06:31:57PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> and ensure that if the user fails to specify a locale, C.UTF-8 is used.

Fun thing: build the attached program with glibc then with musl.

glibc:
"C.UTF-8"     iswalpha: 1 (want 1), mbtowc: 2 (want 2)
"C"           iswalpha: 0 (want 1), mbtowc: -1 (want 2)
unset         iswalpha: 0 (want 1), mbtowc: -1 (want 2)
musl:
"C.UTF-8"     iswalpha: 1 (want 1), mbtowc: 2 (want 2)
"C"           iswalpha: 1 (want 1), mbtowc: 1 (want 2)
unset         iswalpha: 1 (want 1), mbtowc: 2 (want 2)

Ie, if none of LC_ALL, LANG, LC_CTYPE are set, musl considers this to mean
C.UTF-8, exactly what I wanted here.  This does match POSIX:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html#tag_08_02

# 4. If the LANG environment variable is not set or is set to the empty
#    string, the implementation-defined default locale shall be used.


This looks drastically more robust than what I had in mind (mucking with
login defs and env of daemons), and is all standards-kosher.

Ie, if you don't choose a locale at all (as opposed to picking C or
ko_KP.ISO-8859-1), you'll get UTF-8.  

Any thoughts?  As this idea has distro-wide effects, I'm asking you guys
first before annoying glibc maintainers (ours or upstream).


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#include <locale.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <wctype.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

int main()
{
    const char *in="ą\n";
    wchar_t out;

    setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
    printf("iswalpha: %d (want 1), mbtowc: %d (want 2)\n",
            iswalpha(0x105), mbtowc(&out, in, strlen(in)));
    return 0;
}