Re: C.UTF-8 in squeeze (was: Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised locale)

[David Holland <dholland@eecs.harvard.edu>]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 11:44:56AM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
 > > Can this please get done (adding a C.UTF-8 locale)? It is absolutely
 > > required for writing shell scripts that handle UTF-8 data, if you want
 > > those shell scripts to have anything like portable or reliable
 > > behavior.
 > 
 > This is really in the hands of the glibc maintainers.  I thought that
 > a bug had been filed months ago, but I can't find it.  I've done so
 > now.

Thanks.

 > Note this comment from Aurelien Jarno:
 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522776#342
 > 
 > This will only be done with the approval of the release team, who
 > I've copied in.

Right, I think I wasn't very clear. I'm less concerned about whether
this makes it into squeeze than that it gets done eventually; if it's
been applied already in a later version I must have missed this in the
comment log. :-/

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