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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Warn if LC_CTYPE does not transform ASCII chars like POSIX
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 08:09:10
Message-Id: 20151115090851.5e9b9b87.mgorny@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Warn if LC_CTYPE does not transform ASCII chars like POSIX by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 00:26:39 +0100
2 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > >>>>> On Sat, 14 Nov 2015, Michał Górny wrote:
5 >
6 > > Output a warning if LC_CTYPE is set to a value that causes libc
7 > > toupper() and/or tolower() conversions not apply correctly to
8 > > printable ASCII characters.
9 >
10 > The wording of the spec is "The package manager must ensure [...]",
11 > therefore I think a warning is not enough here.
12 >
13 > Maybe add a fallback to en_US.UTF-8, then to POSIX?
14
15 That is not yet all the quirks related to it. This is so far
16 the initial warning that goes in all EAPIs when starting Portage. There
17 will be another check when setting up the ebuild env. Just when
18 I figure out where to put it ;-).
19
20 --
21 Best regards,
22 Michał Górny
23 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>