Bug#1026231: debian-policy: document droppage of support for legacy locales
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 11:47:42AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Preferring to use Unicode does seem to be the direction that all of
> computing is going in, as a simplifying assumption - for example W3C
> advice for HTML is "You should always use the UTF-8 character encoding"[1]
> - and as we know, things that aren't tested usually don't work. So I
> think the level of functionality for non-UTF-8 locales and encodings in
> the software we package is going to decline over time, whether Debian
> wants it to or not.
If the world's most populous country uses something that is not UTF-8, I
think it's safe to say it's being tested, if only by people who will
file bugs when things go awry.
If the PRC government *requires* a non-UTF-8 encoding for things sold to
them, we would be doing our users who want to sell a product containing
Debian to the PRC government a disservice by dropping support for it
altogether.
We don't have to ensure it works perfectly out of the box; just that
support is achievable with a reasonable amount of work.
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I will have a Tin-Actinium-Potassium mixture, thanks.
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