Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:20:27PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Roger Leigh, le Fri 03 Sep 2010 14:52:39 +0100, a écrit :
> > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 01:37:24AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > without any convergence.
> >
> > I think reading back through the entire log,
>
> Thanks for having done it!
>
> > people who were initially
> > rather opposed to the proposal did come around once they appreciated
> > exactly what the changes would be, and why they were needed.
>
> Ok. There was still a question of en_US.UTF-8 vs C.UTF-8, but I believe
> the "en_US.UTF-8 is fine enough" argument doesn't hold any more since
> some other people say that it isn't for them.
>
> > There were no objections to having a UTF-8 locale installed and
> > available by default, just to it *being* the default. Taking this
> > first small step is IMO important to do, preferably for squeeze if
> > possible. Since it's a tiny one-liner change, this should be no
> > trouble in getting this done.
>
> I believe so too, I just didn't want to push it too much, but yes, I
> believe that's something that shouldn't break Squeeze at all.
>
That's not something allowed anymore at this period of the freeze, you
will have to get an exception from the release team first.
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