Bug#981510: reportbug: Wrongly detected character set UTF-8 instead of ASCII

[Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch>]

On 2/1/21 12:07 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> >     * What led up to the situation?
> > I'm using the POSIX locale, which uses the ASCII character set,
> > but reportbug detects the character set as 'UTF-8'.
>
> are you referring to this:
>
> Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
>
> ?
>
> If so, what's the LC_CTYPE env variable set to?
POSIX.

Here's my complete locale output:
$ locale
LANG=POSIX
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

  Detlef