Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "KM" == Kerin Millar <kerframil@×××××.com> writes:

KM> Arch also used to define LC_COLLATE="C" by default, probably to
KM> mitigate unpredictable behaviour in some applications, but have
KM> since dropped this additional variable so they must have deemed it
KM> no longer necessary.

Without LC_COLLATE="C" things like [a-z]* gets a false=positive match
on files like Makefile.

I recently noticed a bug on b.g.o where the ebuild has something like
doc/[A-Z]* expecting that it will not match doc/some_lowercase_subdir.

The bug, of course, is that glibc fraudulently defaults the latin, greek
and cyrillic locales to case-insensitive.

The real fix is to have root be C.UTF-8.  Which differs from C only in
that the charset is utf-8.

-JimC
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