>>>>> "PH" == Paweł Hajdan, <phajdan...@gentoo.org> writes:
PH> Another thing we can consider is making UTF8 the default setup in PH> Gentoo. I think most people (including me) don't care whether it's PH> C or UTF8 as long as it works. Forcing utf-8 will only be reasonable when there is a C.UTF-8 and/or a POSIX.UTF-8 locale. That should be done upstream in glibc, but were they to refuse then Gentoo should add it to the glibc ebuild. The language_country locales are just wrong for root. They are often broken (locales like en_US force case-insensitive colation, meaning that a command such as 'rm [a-z]*' will unlink(2) 'Makefile' and similar files which one would not expect to match) and cause bugs. In fact, glibc's insistance that C and POSIX are ascii rather than raw unspecified eight bit is itself a bug. Utf8 is nice, but forcing the lang_country locales on root is not. -JimC -- James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
