On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: > So this is the third time this change has been proposed: > > If you following the previous one: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-03/threads.html#00104 > it will refer to Bruno's argument for not changing this: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-01/msg00342.html > > It's very unfortunate that US-ASCII doesn't reflect reality on Mac OS X. > I don't have such a system to test this myself unfortunately.
I see the previous arguments. What rubs though is that on darwin we're stuck with the compiled in table that defines "*" as "UTF-8". Yet, that's not true on any other platform. For VMS there's no default to UTF-8. For Windows or Cygwin there's no default to UTF-8. For all other platforms the user can define a charset.aliases to manage mappings. I don't know what these platforms would do given LC_ALL set to C or US-ASCII, but there's nothing in the sed code that forces them to UTF-8. Yet only on darwin has this decision has been made for us.
