On 12/31/2012 09:14 AM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > Hi, > > stage3 now includes non-ASCII paths, via app-misc/ca-certificates -- e.g.: > /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/TÜBİTAK_UEKAE_Kök_Sertifika_Hizmet_Sağlayıcısı_-_Sürüm_3.crt > > Working with those (e.g., backup) probably requires a UTF-8 locale. Is > this considered acceptable? Did anyone notice?
It's been that way for a very long time (over a year). Since bug #382199 [1], portage uses a constant UTF-8 encoding for all installed files regardless of the locale, so at least you can count on portage handling those UTF-8 names even if you don't have a UTF-8 locale configured. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382199 -- Thanks, Zac
