Bug#1020654: C.UTF-8: surprising differences in character classes
Hi Aurelien,
>Starting with glibc 2.35, we do not patch the glibc to add C.UTF-8
>support, instead we use the upstream code which comes with the following
>NEWS entry [1]:
[…]
Thanks for the extra info.
>> They are as mandated by POSIX for the C locale. I believe I said
>> in my original 2013 proposal for a C.UTF-8 locale that it should
>> be as close to C as possible while using UTF-8 as encoding.
>
>Those are mandated for the POSIX C locale, but POSIX does not say
>anything (yet) about the C.UTF-8 locale.
Right. But, as I wrote above, my intent was to have C.UTF-8 to mirror
C as closely as possible.
>The choice made by upstream has been discussed during many years [2],
>if you disagree with it, please come back to upstream.
*sigh* but I understand your PoV.
bye,
//mirabilos
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