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

To: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>
Cc: 522776@bugs.debian.org, Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>
Subject: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:53:50 -0700
Message-id: <[🔎] 87fwxriwox.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
Reply-to: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, 522776@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20100902224453.GA29905@const.famille.thibault.fr> (Samuel Thibault's message of "Fri, 3 Sep 2010 00:44:53 +0200")
References: <20090406120655.27815.2545.reportbug@lenny.mirbsd.org> <[🔎] 20100902224453.GA29905@const.famille.thibault.fr>

Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> writes:

> No news on this?

> Hurd's console needs a UTF-8 locale to be able to use wcwidth() for
> proper double-width support.

> Note: debian-installer is already providing a C.UTF-8 locale to d-i
> components, so it works there.

Does libc in Debian provide a C.UTF-8 locale?  I think that's a
prerequisite for doing anything in Policy, no?

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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