Bug#292330: use UTF-8 by default
Mike Hommey dixit:
>> it's not. We could create a neutral.utf-8 locale for sure
Sounds like a plan. Maybe something short and uppercase, akin to
"C" and "POSIX", how about "STD.UTF-8"?
>> 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.
Ugh. Really? Nah, please spare me the details.
>Note that you won't get strings split in the middle of a point code with
>UTF-8.
This is possible with UTF-8.
Try this one: ł (U+0142) = C5 82
You can split between the C5 and the 82.
>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)
That'd be a nice additional idea, but it makes additional problems too,
for example quotas, or when do these get updated, or that duplication
is always bad. That would probably be a glibc issue then.
//mirabile
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