Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale
Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> 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.”?
The other angle here is that it can't just be any UTF-8 locale, since that
isn't very helpful to software that needs to choose a UTF-8 locale on an
automated basis. Lintian, for example, just needs *some* locale that's
UTF-8, but I don't want to have to try en_US.UTF-8 and then fr.UTF-8 and
then pt_BR.UTF-8 and then....
I think we need to explicitly require a *specific* UTF-8 locale be
available. C.UTF-8 has a lot of appeal since it's the minimal UTF-8
locale and it doesn't get into issues of favoring one particular language
and its corresponding collation rules, etc.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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