Giacomo A. Catenazzi writes: > [Andrew McMillan probably] > I think nobody should use "C" or "C.UTF-8" as user encoding. > And I really hope that Debian will try to convince user to > use a proper locale.
Debian doesn't ship a proper locale. I want sorting according to the raw Unicode values. I want iswprint() to return non-zero for a Cyrillic character, a Korean character, etc. Debian shouldn't be setting locale-related environment variables unless the user specifically chooses. The implementation-specific defaults, applied in the absense of any environment variables, should support Unicode. >> * All ISO8859 locales are moved to a new locales-legacy-encodings >> package. > > This encoding is used also on CD/, floppy, remote filesystems, > USB pens, on a lot of internet pages, etc. Nope. It's actually UTF-16 in VFAT, Joliet, CIFS, and so on. Linux has mount options to control how that gets make POSIX-compatible. You can choose UTF-8. (this should be Debian's default) > But an ASCII7 "C" encoding allow you to do the same things. It doesn't > forbid 8 bit characters (thus UTF-8). Unix is transparent on characters > (i.e. binary and text are the same, you can grep binaries, ...). > > So scripts should use LANG=C on most cases. That leaves iswprint() and towupper() broken. (not that it must) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
