Adeodato Simó dixit:
>I would go as far as suggesting that some package like libc6 itself
FWIW:
-rw-r--r-- 1 tg tg 238336 Apr 7 22:59 en_US.UTF-8/LC_CTYPE
It's not *that* much...
>Finally, this stuff that Roger proposes about making “C” be UTF-8, and
>create some C.ASCII for people needing that, sounds shocking at the same
>time as appealing.
It won't work, because in a UTF-8 locale, for example stdio
functions must reject "invalid" (not valid UTF-8) input, so
it would not be 8-bit clean/transparent any more.
//mirabilos
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