Roger Leigh a écrit : > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 08:44:10AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> Roger Leigh a écrit : >>> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 09:14:47PM -0500, David Holland wrote: >>>> Can this please get done (adding a C.UTF-8 locale)? It is absolutely >>>> required for writing shell scripts that handle UTF-8 data, if you want >>>> those shell scripts to have anything like portable or reliable >>>> behavior. >>> This is really in the hands of the glibc maintainers. I thought that >>> a bug had been filed months ago, but I can't find it. I've done so >>> now. >> I know some persons already tried to work on that, so if patches are >> already available, they will be really appreciated. >> >> Providing a C.UTF-8 locale is quite easy, d-i is already doing that. >> Providing a C.UTF-8 *by default* is more complicated, as it has to be >> done in the GNU libc code, we can't really on the locale package >> generating one. This would mean this package should always be installed, >> and that we should trust on user to correctly regenerate the locales if >> they do. > > Hi Aurelien, > > I think that initially, simply guaranteeing the presence of C.UTF-8 > as a standard locale, generated by localedef/gen will be sufficient. > This will allow packages to rely on its presence during normal > system operation e.g. in maintainer scripts, for lintian and other > programs requiring it. >
Doing so means that the locales or locales-all package will be installed by default. People are going to shout... Or we should create a locales-cutf8 packages, but then the integration with the two other packages will become quite complex. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d2ae542.2030...@aurel32.net
