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

["Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org>]

Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 09:24:38PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > + 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).
>
> % sudo localedef -c -i POSIX -f UTF-8 C.UTF-8
>
> % LANG=C.UTF8 locale charmap
> UTF-8
>
> % LANG=C locale charmap
> ANSI_X3.4-1968
>
> This appears to work correctly at first glance.
>
> 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).

POSIX doesn't mandate "C" to be ASCII7.

BTW ASCII7 is a subset of UTF-8, so what would be different with
normal "C"?  I don't expect any differences on any program (which
are POSIX compatible). The output characters will still be only on
the c<128 range.

ciao
	cate