Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default

[Alexis Ballier]

On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:21:40 -0700
Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu> wrote:

> On 01/08/2012 23:42, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > Honestly, if some asian person has whatever charset that I often
> > find in spam messages, but is not UTF-8, are you then going to tell
> > that person to switch to UTF-8 to get those python packages
> > emerged?  I hope not.
>
> Tell that to the Python team I guess. My tinderbox _has_ utf8 locales
> available, but doesn't set in by default -> Python stuff fails to
> build or test -> not going to be fixed with "change your locale"
> reasoning.

not that it is hard to set LC_ALL=sth before running the failing
command, or make the pm do it... we already fix regexp bugs with other
locales (or workaround them by setting LC_ALL=C), it falls under the
same category.
you just need to teach people, and maybe mandate an utf8 locale to be
present; the same way they do not consider estonian alphabet ordering
'broken' they would not consider not having an utf8 locale 'broken',
esp. when said utf8 is far from being optimal in terms of size for asian
languages.

A.