On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@flameeyes.eu> wrote: > On 01/08/2012 23:42, Fabian Groffen wrote: >> Honestly, if some asian person has whatever charset that I often find in >> spam messages, but is not UTF-8, are you then going to tell that person >> to switch to UTF-8 to get those python packages emerged? I hope not. > > Tell that to the Python team I guess. My tinderbox _has_ utf8 locales > available, but doesn't set in by default -> Python stuff fails to build > or test -> not going to be fixed with "change your locale" reasoning. > > Is it mental? Yes. > Would I like that to change? Yes. > Do I care ẃhether that's through the use of cluebyfour on the Python > team or by setting an utf-8 locale by default? Not in the least. >
Please apply the cluebyfour to the upstream developers of python and python modules. :-) I do try to fix unicode problems if I run into them. However, sometimes it just isn't worth the effort.
