Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale
Bill Allombert dixit:
>Fortunately, since Sarge, debian-installer set LANG in
>/etc/environment so programs almost never run under C locale anymore.
Except the ton which sets LC_ALL=C to get sane (parsable,
dependable, historically compatible) output.
These would then unset all other LC_* and LANG and LANGUAGE,
and only set LC_CTYPE to C.UTF-8 to get "old" behaviour but
with UTF-8 (and mbrtowc and iswctype and and and) available.
For what it's worth: vorlon gave me the means to change the
mksh regression test (LOCPATH), so that this will no longer
block it on the HURD. However, I'm still in favour of a de-
fault UTF-8 locale (be it C.UTF-8 or en_US.UTF-8) installed
plus, maybe, one binary package per locale? Aurelien - if I
remember correctly - said something along these lines too.
bye,
//mirabilos
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what about xfs, and if only i had waited until reiser4 was ready... in the be-
ginning, there was ffs, and in the middle, there was ffs, and at the end, there
was still ffs, and the sys admins knew it was good. :) -- Ted Unangst über *fs
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