On Sat, Feb 02, 2019 at 05:57:31PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Ralph Corderoy wrote on Sat, Feb 02, 2019 at 02:59:21PM +0000: > > Ingo Schwarze wrote: > >> It doubt that the benefit of avoiding the ugly ` ' in ASCII output is > >> worth these (at least) three downsides. > > > Whom is this change is meant to benefit? I've lost track. > > People reading roff(7) documents with nroff(1) or man(1) in a terminal > window while they have LC_CTYPE=C set and while they are using a modern > font.
One common real-world example I'd offer would be anyone who has a modern terminal/font/etc. setup locally but who is reading a man page while SSHed into a server that doesn't have a matching locale (it's not at all unusual for me to find that en_GB.UTF-8 hasn't been generated on some server or other). Unfortunately we don't have a robust mechanism for sshd to pick some other suitable locale that at least has a matching encoding, and the details of this would no doubt be difficult to define anyway; so the upshot is that somebody in this situation ends up with the equivalent of LC_ALL=C on the remote system even though they normally prefer UTF-8 locally. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
