Re: Should glibc provide a builtin C.UTF-8 locale?

[keld at keldix dot com]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 02:34:22PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 10/21/2015 01:49 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > i've created a C.UTF-8 page where i've tried to gather all the points
> > people made in this thread:
> > 	https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Proposals/C.UTF-8
> > 
> > can people read it over and make sure i didn't miss anything and just
> > fix/update it when i did ;).
> > 
> > if anyone is familiar with what distros have already done that'd help.
> > i've found references to them supporting it, but i didn't dive into the
> > sources to see what they actually do.
> > 
> > i thought about writing a patch, but it seems distros already have, so
> > it'd be kind of a waste of time.  i guess we should get the RedHat guys
> > to post their work :).
> 
> Looks good to me.
> 
> Fedora support is here:
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/glibc.git/commit/?id=0457f649e3fe6299efe384da13dfc923bbe65707
> 
> Patch for C.UTF-8:
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/glibc/2015-September/000081.html
> 
> The patch lists some if the differences between debian and fedora.
> 
> We are testing C.UTF-8 in rawhide and I expect Mike FABIAN wants to
> submit this upstream at some point to become the official C.UTF-8
> locale, but we'd also like to harmonize with the distros if there
> is anything we aren't doing right.

What is the intended differnce between this locale and the i18n locale of ISO TR 30112?

best regards
keld