Bug#874160: src:glibc: default locale to C.UTF-8
On 2017-09-03 18:49, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Package: src:glibc
> Version: 2.24-17
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
>
> Hi!
> Here's a simple patch set to change the default of setlocale(…, "") to
> C.UTF-8. This is a drastically smaller change than altering the meaning of
> "C" to mean "C.UTF-8" that upstream is mulling over -- it affects only
> programs that already have locale support, when the user fails to set any.
Even is the change is small, that might still change the behavior of
some programs, so I am not sure we want to diverge from upstream and
other distributions here.
One example comes to my mind: initializing a postgresql database
cluster. When not using the --locale option this would cause the
database to use a non C locale, which has significant performance
impact.
Aurelien
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