Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale
Russ Allbery dixit:
>I agree with others in this thread that having a UTF-8 locale without the
>collation changes implied by en_US is very useful for various software
>packages such as automated test suites that want reproducible results and
>were originally written for the C locale.
Same for testsuites that are written for UTF-8 but don’t care about
anything other than LC_CTYPE. And for people to whom en_US.UTF-8 is
too fat or “politically incorrect” (though the latter is usually be
fixed by en_GB.UTF-8 which has metric and ISO A4 paper) and others,
like apparently Hurd.
To me, strictly spoken, it doesn’t matter which one as long as there
is one, for the mksh testsuite, but as user, being able to run a
command with 'env LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 foo' on a “hostile” system (e.g.
my cow-orkers insist on installing systems in German *shudder*)
simply rocks.
If nobody beats me, I’ll digest-and-write-a-proposal as suggested.
bye,
//mirabilos
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