Albert Cahalan dixit: >Giacomo A. Catenazzi writes:
>> I think nobody should use "C" or "C.UTF-8" as user encoding. I’d use it. >Debian doesn't ship a proper locale. I want sorting according >to the raw Unicode values. Also called ASCIIbetically ☺ But C exists, C.UTF-8 doesn’t. >>> * All ISO8859 locales are moved to a new locales-legacy-encodings >>> package. >> >> This encoding is used also on CD/, floppy, remote filesystems, >> USB pens, on a lot of internet pages, etc. > >Nope. > >It's actually UTF-16 in VFAT, Joliet, CIFS, and so on. And cp437 (or, worse, cp850) in FAT SFNs. >> So scripts should use LANG=C on most cases. > >That leaves iswprint() and towupper() broken. (not that it must) No, LANG is *also* wrong. Scripts relying on certain behaviour use LC_ALL=C (and, on GNU OSes, also must “unset LANGUAGE”), but some things just require UTF-8, so the current approach is to unset everything beginning with LC_*, setting LANG=C (or unsetting it) and LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 or en_GB.UTF-8 or whatever and hoping that that locale is installed… not acceptable! bye, //mirabilos -- 16:47⎜«mika:#grml» .oO(mira ist einfach gut....) 23:22⎜«mikap:#grml» mirabilos: und dein bootloader ist geil :) 23:29⎜«mikap:#grml» und ich finds saugeil dass ich ein bsd zum booten mit grml hab, das muss ich dann gleich mal auf usb-stick installieren -- Michael Prokop über MirOS bsd4grml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
