Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Warn if LC_CTYPE does not transform ASCII chars like POSIX
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 23:27:16
Message-Id: 22087.49967.536206.109084@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Warn if LC_CTYPE does not transform ASCII chars like POSIX by "Michał Górny"
1 >>>>> On Sat, 14 Nov 2015, Michał Górny wrote:
2
3 > Output a warning if LC_CTYPE is set to a value that causes libc
4 > toupper() and/or tolower() conversions not apply correctly to
5 > printable ASCII characters.
6
7 The wording of the spec is "The package manager must ensure [...]",
8 therefore I think a warning is not enough here.
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10 Maybe add a fallback to en_US.UTF-8, then to POSIX?
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12 Ulrich

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