[glibc] intl: Treat C.UTF-8 locale like C locale (BZ# 16621)
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Sep 4 14:26:15 GMT 2023
* Andreas Schwab via Libc-alpha:
> On Sep 04 2023, Florian Weimer via Glibc-cvs wrote:
>
>> diff --git a/intl/dcigettext.c b/intl/dcigettext.c
>> index 7886ac9545..27063886d2 100644
>> --- a/intl/dcigettext.c
>> +++ b/intl/dcigettext.c
>> @@ -1560,8 +1560,12 @@ guess_category_value (int category, const char *categoryname)
>> 2. The precise output of some programs in the "C" locale is specified
>> by POSIX and should not depend on environment variables like
>> "LANGUAGE" or system-dependent information. We allow such programs
>> - to use gettext(). */
>> - if (strcmp (locale, "C") == 0)
>> + to use gettext().
>> + Ignore LANGUAGE and its system-dependent analogon also if the locale is
>> + set to "C.UTF-8" or, more generally, to "C.<encoding>", because that's
>> + the by-design behaviour for glibc, see
>> + <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Proposals/C.UTF-8>. */
>> + if (locale[0] == 'C' && (locale[1] == '\0' || locale[1] == '.'))
>> return locale;
>
> Should this also cover the "POSIX" locale?
"POSIX.UTF-8" is not a valid locale string, as far as I can tell, so we
do not have to treat "POSIX" differently in this context. Plain "POSIX"
seems to have been normalized to "C" at this point.
> What about the reference to "C" in dcigettext?
The remaining references allow having different messages for C and
C.UTF-8, maybe with added Unicode punctuation characters. That seems
useful.
Thanks,
Florian
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