On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 01:23:29PM +0200, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: > Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes: > > > I think wheezy would be a good time to finally ditch non-UTF8 locales. > > IIRC, we made the switch to UTF8 by default in etch (and we were already > > way too late in doing that), and supporting non-UTF8 stuff becomes > > harder and harder, at least for desktop software. > > In testing, the C and POSIX locales still don't use UTF-8. > I don't know about unstable. They don't. But, see #522776. There's nothing preventing them being switched to UTF-8 from ASCII; it doesn't break any of the C, POSIX or SUS standards and some operating systems (HP-UX) already do this. It's certainly something I'd like to see done. It solves a number of annoying encoding and localisation issues, and it gives us UTF-8 support by default from end-to-end through the entire Debian system. Like the existing C locale, it would require hard-coding into libc, which I've tried doing but lack the detailed knowledge of glibc internals to do it properly. One issue is that the UTF-8 charmap should not be duplicated for each separate locale; currently it appears as though each locale needlessly has its own copy! We would want to share it given its size. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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