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



Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> writes:

> There were no objections to having a UTF-8 locale installed and
> available by default, just to it *being* the default.
[…]

Would a less confusing way to make this distinction be to say something
like: “The minimal Debian installation must have a locale available that
uses the UTF-8 character encoding.”?

That is, avoiding the “be there by default” versus “be the default”
confusion altogether?

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Ben Finney

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