On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Jonathan Callen <jcal...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 01/08/2017 11:36 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@skynet.be> wrote: >>> Urs wrote >>> >>>> You can generate a "fake" C.UTF-8 locale with localedef: >>>> # localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 C.UTF-8 >>>> and remove it when no longer needed: >>>> # localedef --delete-from-archive C.utf8 >>> >>> Is the strange locale name C.UTF-8 a "specialty" of darktable or have >>> other distributions such a locale? >> >> C.UTF-8 is (and has been for a while) a valid Debian locale,installed >> by default with libc. And it became, somewhat recently, a valid Fedora >> locale (so as not to have to install any additional locales in a >> container, over and above the default libc ones, C, C.UTF-8, and >> POSIX). > > It is possible to create this on Gentoo (with some warnings) by creating > a symlink /usr/share/i18n/locales/C that points to "POSIX", then adding > "C.UTF-8" to locale.gen as normal.
Thanks. I've just done it. There were some warnings as you cautioned. Symlinking C to en_US (to use locale-gen rather than localedef as above) generates it without warnings but it's probably not "appropriate." Debian patches libc: https://sources.debian.net/src/glibc/2.24-8/debian/patches/localedata/locale-C.diff/ Fedora patches libc: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/glibc.git/tree/glibc-c-utf8-locale.patch
