Bug#840199: libc6: setlocale(LC_ALL, "C.UTF-8") used to work in jessie

[Jérémy Lal <kapouer@melix.org>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.24-3
Severity: normal

Hi,

This used to work in jessie:

export LC_ALL="C.UTF-8"
echo "ça va" | iconv -f UTF-8 -t "ascii//TRANSLIT"
> ca va

Now it doesn't:
> ?a va

Jérémy


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libgcc1  1:6.2.0-5

libc6 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libc6 suggests:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.59
pn  glibc-doc              <none>
ii  libc-l10n              2.24-3
ii  locales                2.24-3

-- debconf information excluded