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Re: [PATCH] Use Unicode code points for country_isbn
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>, Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, libc-locales at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 22:45:09 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use Unicode code points for country_isbn
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On 07/23/2015 10:16 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> Joseph, Ondrej, and myself agree that we should find a way to just
>> make these files UTF-8. I expect that a precondition is going to be
>> to add an unremovable C.UTF-8 locale, which I think is important.
>
> I also like the idea of having these files be UTF-8.
>
> Why is an unremovable C.UTF-8 locale a precondition, though? We
> should be able to assume a properly-installed localedef and a minimum
> set of locales for running development tools like localedef. The
> minimum set could include en_US.UTF-8.
Agreed. I should not have said "precondition" when I really meant
"nice to have" since it simplifies some of the error handling
if you know you have a fallback UTF-8 locale you can use.
c.