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Bug#874160: Fedora has C.UTF-8



On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 4:30 AM Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
>
> Looks like Fedora has C.UTF-8 now, and even backported this change to their
> stable releases:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902094
>
> They're not upstream, but a good part of distros that are not downstream
> from Debian are downstream from Fedora.  This availability makes defaulting
> to C.UTF-8 that more viable.

I'm working to get C.UTF-8 upstream, but there are real defects in
full code-point sorting that need resolution.

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17318

I think all distros should start trying to use a C.UTF-8 that is
installed and unremovable.

Particularly since Python3 and gnome-terminal need UTF-8.

Cheers,
Carlos.

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