Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

+ Thorsten Glaser (Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:54:59 +0000):

> 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.

Isn’t setting LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 going to be about the same and less work?
I’m genuinely interested if that would behave any different to what you
said (unsetting all, setting LC_CTYPE).

Cheers,

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