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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 06:43:58
Message-Id: 20120802064259.GQ49719@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default by Mike Gilbert
1 On 01-08-2012 21:00:23 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > Diego mentioned the python issue.
3
4 Honestly, if some asian person has whatever charset that I often find in
5 spam messages, but is not UTF-8, are you then going to tell that person
6 to switch to UTF-8 to get those python packages emerged? I hope not.
7
8 There is a difference between "there is a UTF-8 locale available on the
9 system" and "en_US.UTF-8 locale is in effect".
10
11 Fabian
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14 Fabian Groffen
15 Gentoo on a different level

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Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default Stelian Ionescu <sionescu@××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>