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

Marko Myllynen myllynen@redhat.com
Thu Oct 22 11:33:00 GMT 2015


Hi,

On 2015-10-21 20:49, 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 ;).

once the C.UTF-8 locale has landed, what shall we do with the C locale,
more specifically with its transliteration data?

It was noticed earlier that it contains now ~Unicode 3.2 data with some
local additions. Should we leave it as-is or drop anything
non-ASCII/POSIX there?

Thanks,

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Marko Myllynen



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