Bug#522776: Subject: Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale
Albert Cahalan dixit:
>Any imperfection in a locale results in "C", as ASCII as can be.
Yes, and "C" shall not imply latin1 but 7-bit ASCII but 8-bit
transparent.
//mirabilos
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Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh-
ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant
detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions
in English text in bold font. -- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C"
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