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On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 01:16:18AM +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: |
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> We received too many invalid bugs caused by unsupported locales. python_pkg_setup() needs to check |
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> locale and print error (using eerror(), without die()), when unsupported locale has been detected. |
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I'm strongly with Brian on this. You receive too many valid bug reports |
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caused by a broken package. python_pkg_setup needs to do nothing. You |
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need to fix the bugs, or if fixing them is too much of an issue, work |
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around them in the ebuild. Keep in mind that having no locale explicitly |
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selected is the default for a Gentoo installation, and that the docs do |
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not (and should not) say anywhere that non-UTF-8 locales are unsupported. |
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In fact, quoting from |
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<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml>: |
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"It's also possible, and pretty common especially in a more traditional |
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UNIX environment, to leave the global settings unchanged, i.e. in the |
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"C" locale. Users can still specify their preferred locale in their own |
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shell RC file:" |
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