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

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On 21 Oct 2015 22:55, keld@keldix.com wrote:
> 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?

the Fedora e-mail coupled with the wiki page highlight our intentions.
if you see deviations between the i18n locale, you should highlight
them here for us to discuss/document.
-mike

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