Bug#292330: use UTF-8 by default
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:48:04AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 05:48:00PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> > also sprach Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> [2007.06.16.1528 +0100]:
> > > That's what I did, but the idea is not to have to do that. (Besides,
> > > "C" is installed by default, so we need some kind of "C.UTF-8", whose
> > > role is – for LC_CTYPE – usually fulfilled by en_US.UTF-8.)
> >
> > Please stop CCing debian-project.
> >
> > Does a C.UTF-8 exist? If yes, then this is a sound proposal,
> > I think.
>
> it's not. We could create a neutral.utf-8 locale for sure, but a
> C.utf-8 is really bad, because some programs check the locale for 'C'
> and when they foind that use hand optimized functions to replace the
> localized libc ones. And thanks to POSIX, even if it looks gross, it's
> totally OK to do that.
>
> C charset is and should be ascii, that's an assumption you should not
> break. In fact, using an 8bit locale would often not harm, but a
> multi-byte one would be really really bad (as you would end up with e.g.
> strings split in the middle of a point code, *brrr* you definitely don't
> want that).
Note that you won't get strings split in the middle of a point code with
UTF-8.
Anyways, maybe the general problem is that there should be a way to
generate locales at the user level (and store everything in ~/.locale,
for example)
Mike
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