Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale
Giacomo A. Catenazzi, le Fri 03 Sep 2010 15:26:47 +0200, a écrit :
> BTW I think we should wait some more time. Last week I was on
> debian-glibc list a bug: printf fails if it find an invalid UTF-8
> character (when the locale uses UTF-8). Note it is allowed in POSIX,
> which distinguish raw strings and parts which uses locale definitions.
> So I don't think a C.UTF-8 is safe.
It's not safe as a system default, yes. But we're not talking about
making the system default a UTF-8 locale. We're talking about providing
one for those packages which need it. Such package should know what
they are doing already, and should probably actually prefer to get such
error properly.
> But a good release goal for squeeze+1.
I wasn't planning to push it for Squeeze actually, unless glibc people
think it's ok to add it.
Samuel
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