On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 17:47:24 +0200 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Python upstream is doing what they think is best in using unicode. > > > > That said, what if we just temporarily set a locale in the ebuild > > for running tests and elsewhere? Is this unreasonable or > > impossible? It might not be a great solution, this method, since > > users' stuff will still break. > > It is impossible because you can't know which locale a particular > system has available. AFAIK there's no 'it-will-always-work' choice; > unless we're going to enforce generating some common locale, or do > very ugly things.
I don't think anyone will object to enforcing a given locale to be present, even en_US.UTF-8; people will object if they have to use that locale. Maybe locale-gen can even generate it on-the-fly in $T, I don't know. A.
