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



Russ Allbery, le Thu 02 Sep 2010 15:53:50 -0700, a écrit :
> 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?

It doesn't yet but it's easy to do, that's not the question.  See the
questions in the bug thread.

> I think that's a prerequisite for doing anything in Policy, no?

Probably, but before doing anything in libc we need to decide what to
do.

Samuel



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