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From: Camille Huot <cam@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2012-03-13
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:02:41
Message-Id: CANcc=mR8AAUMJ45+1+2Dv2fMQuk+7dTgWT5WxWEcJmiMnV8EJg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2012-03-13 by "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn"
1 A posix/utf8 combination that wouldn't break anything is perfect.
2 Furthermore if Debian already did it.
3 On Mar 1, 2012 12:15 PM, "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
4 wrote:
5
6 > Ulrich Mueller schrieb:
7 > >
8 > > If we change the default, we should use a less intrusive approach
9 > > and change LC_CTYPE only, which is the relevant variable that
10 > > controls the character encoding functions.
11 >
12 > LC_CTYPE will affect transliteration too. Introducing a C.UTF-8 (or
13 > POSIX.UTF-8) locale like Debian did could be done without possibly
14 > subjecting users to unexpected transliteration results of e.g.
15 > Cyrillic or German umlauts.
16 >
17 >
18 > Best regards,
19 > Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
20 >
21 >
22 >
23 >