Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale
Giacomo A. Catenazzi dixit:
> This is good way to do things!
Thanks.
> Or a debhelper (or like) utility
> that "construct it" for build needs.
That’s already done, as I said – vorlon gave me an idea, I implemented
it, it works, I uploaded a new mksh package… and then I saw someone’s
added it to the D-D-R since I last looked into it…
> In this case "us_EN.UTF-8" is a sensible locale (we want to test
It’s “en_US.UTF-8” by the way.
> a real locale), but in this case I would also test some UTF-16
> or Asian locale (mksh should not assume UTF-8 in these cases).
It doesn’t. This test is already run for the C locale.
Besides, there are no UTF-16 or somesuch locales on UNIX® or
compatible systems.
//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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