Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale
Roger Leigh dixit:
>However, I would ideally like the C/POSIX locales to be UTF-8
>by default as on other systems (with a C.ASCII variant if required).
No, this has the potential to break, for example, tr(1).
I lived through that on MirBSD.
//mirabilos
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“It is inappropriate to require that a time represented as
seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of
seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.”
-- IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX) Section B.2.2.2
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