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



Samuel Thibault dixit:

>LC_CTYPE has differences between locales, transliterations notably.  For

Oh, okay – good to know…

>I'd say go on :)

OK.

>(of course we'll need to wait for libc to provide the locale
>(post-squeeze I guess) before changing the policy).

Sure. Maybe think of something to help backporters, make a
source package able to detect if it already can use this
locale or has to use the localedef way.

bye,
//mirabilos
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