2010/2/7 Patric Mueller <bh...@gmx.net>: > Michal Suchanek <hramr...@centrum.cz> wrote: >> On 6 February 2010 15:23, Patric Mueller <bh...@gmx.net> wrote: >>> Michal Suchanek <hramr...@centrum.cz> wrote: >>>> FWIW here is a patch that >>>> >>>> a) tries to detect if user is running in utf-8 locale by a heuristic >>>> similar that that used in the autoconf test >>> >>> setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") only sets the current LC_CTYPE to the value of >>> the user environment. >>> >>> If e.g. the user has LC_ALL=C the program will fail even if there is a >>> utf-8 locale it could use installed on the computer. >> >> Yes, and it's expected that users that want utf-8 output do have utf-8 >> locale set so it just works in most cases. > > But the utf-8 locale isn't only used for utf-8 output. As utf-8 is > used as internal standard encoding it is also used when e.g. > converting a latin1 or a shift_jis html file. > > Requiring that the user has set an utf-8 locale for those cases is > unnecessary.
Yes, you are right that the utf-8 locale is used in some odd way during the conversion. >>> The attached patch first tries to set the locale found in the autoconf >>> script. >>> >>> If that fails, it popens 'locale -a' and searches for a working utf-8 >>> locale to use. > >> Still it should work in the common case either way. > > I'm not sure that the not so common cases you're thinking of are that > rare. For example, my OS is completely utf-8 capable, but I prefer my > shell to be in latin1. That's certainly unusual, especially given that latin-1 should work in utf-8 without additional conversion. > > Nevertheless, IMO the finding-the-locale-at-runtime approach has a > bigger chance of just working in more cases with less user > intervention. > Yes, that's what I would like to see happening. This is less of a problem in Gentoo because every user builds their own packages but in Debian the detection of utf-8 locale has to be done at runtime. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
