Hi Aurelien, >Starting with glibc 2.35, we do not patch the glibc to add C.UTF-8 >support, instead we use the upstream code which comes with the following >NEWS entry [1]: […]
Thanks for the extra info. >> They are as mandated by POSIX for the C locale. I believe I said >> in my original 2013 proposal for a C.UTF-8 locale that it should >> be as close to C as possible while using UTF-8 as encoding. > >Those are mandated for the POSIX C locale, but POSIX does not say >anything (yet) about the C.UTF-8 locale. Right. But, as I wrote above, my intent was to have C.UTF-8 to mirror C as closely as possible. >The choice made by upstream has been discussed during many years [2], >if you disagree with it, please come back to upstream. *sigh* but I understand your PoV. bye, //mirabilos -- 22:20⎜<asarch> The crazy that persists in his craziness becomes a master 22:21⎜<asarch> And the distance between the craziness and geniality is only measured by the success 18:35⎜<asarch> "Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent