Thorsten Glaser, le Fri 03 Sep 2010 13:02:31 +0000, a écrit : > Russ Allbery dixit: > >I agree with others in this thread that having a UTF-8 locale without the > >collation changes implied by en_US is very useful for various software > >packages such as automated test suites that want reproducible results and > >were originally written for the C locale. > > Same for testsuites that are written for UTF-8 but don’t care about > anything other than LC_CTYPE.
A sequence of remarks here: one could think that it'd be just enough to unset LC_ALL and set LC_CTYPE to achieve the same. However, even LC_CTYPE has differences between locales, transliterations notably. For the transliterations alone we'd probably better go with a stable C.UTF-8 which doesn't depend on transliteration fixes in whichever locale would be chosen to provide a UTF-8 variant. > If nobody beats me, I’ll digest-and-write-a-proposal as suggested. I'd say go on :) (of course we'll need to wait for libc to provide the locale (post-squeeze I guess) before changing the policy). Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100903134313.gl5...@const.bordeaux.inria.fr
