Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:45:19
Message-Id: 50E2073E.2020004@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default by Maxim Kammerer
1 On 12/31/2012 09:14 AM, Maxim Kammerer wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > stage3 now includes non-ASCII paths, via app-misc/ca-certificates -- e.g.:
5 > /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/TÜBÝTAK_UEKAE_Kök_Sertifika_Hizmet_Saðlayýcýsý_-_Sürüm_3.crt
6 >
7 > Working with those (e.g., backup) probably requires a UTF-8 locale. Is
8 > this considered acceptable? Did anyone notice?
9
10 It's been that way for a very long time (over a year). Since bug #382199
11 [1], portage uses a constant UTF-8 encoding for all installed files
12 regardless of the locale, so at least you can count on portage handling
13 those UTF-8 names even if you don't have a UTF-8 locale configured.
14
15 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382199
16 --
17 Thanks,
18 Zac