Gentoo Archives: gentoo-python

From: Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>
To: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-python <gentoo-python@l.g.o>, python@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-python] Supporting non-UTF-8 locales
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:10:45
Message-Id: 1361128192.3997.191.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca
In Reply to: [gentoo-python] Supporting non-UTF-8 locales by Mike Gilbert
1 On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 13:48 -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2
3 > My vote would be to not support non-UTF-8 locales -- it just isn't
4 > worth the effort.
5 >
6 > Thoughts?
7 >
8
9 +1, but I'm not also using/needing a non-utf8 locale. Those that do
10 need a non-utf8 locale need to speak up as for the reasons.
11
12 Perhaps if more distros force utf-8 locales, then those apps/sites that
13 are using non-utf-8 will migrate their code to a utf-8 equivalent
14 (hopefully)