Ralph,
> Or worse, it may continue to run but cause corruption of data.
thanks for weighing in. i sympathize with (and find appealing) your
position.
but, i think this may be a trade-off between usability and correctness.
(we more often talk about the trade-off between usability and security.)
Neven,
> A C program is in the "C" locale already when it reaches the main
> function, so I think there's no point to calling it again.
ah, thanks. i didn't know that.
with the new "C.UTF-8", possibly it makes sense to try falling back to
that locale (after "" fails), before defaulting to the "
Marius,
> This mail just reminded me that one of my own projects didn't handle a messed
> locale setup gracefully in the past causing multiple users (that apparently
> had a messed setup) to report issues, e.g. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/
> syncthingtray#comment-816671 and https://github
Eli,
> It's not precisely new, but it used to be you needed to opt into it
> because if you did, you lost the per-package download progress.
thanks!
cheers, Greg
hi. is this new "Total" line, when downloading for =pacman -Syu=, new?
Total ( 58/390) 223.8 MiB 1414 KiB/s 20:59
[###--] 11%
if so -- i find it very nice, and thanks to whoever implemented it!
(and, even if not so. :)
