Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale
Albert Cahalan dixit:
>Unless plain "C" goes UTF-8
Not going to happen, it’s not binary-safe. (I fought that in
MirBSD with the OPTU-8/16 encoding scheme.)
>The stupid broken en_US.UTF-8 fucks up the sort order.
So true… (and paper size!)
>We really need a do-nothing locale that follows the Unicode spec
>using the UTF-8 encoding.
Yes, my proposal exactly.
>We could also use a do-nothing locale
>that follows the Unicode spec using the Latin-1 encoding.
No, for two reasons:
① legacy encodings must die
② then you need one for EVERY legacy encoding (why special-case one?)
bye,
//mirabilos
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