On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 05:41:45PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 11:56:44PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> Along similar lines, what do folks think of the idea of patching > >> Python 3.6 in Fedora to assume UTF-8 if it's told that it should use > >> ASCII to communicate with the OS? > > +1 > > > > Non-utf8 environments are nowadays a rarity, OTOH misconfigured > > installations which do support utf8 but are just missing an env var > > are rather common (e.g. mock). > > Why aren't we fixing Fedora Cloud/Atomic and the container images to > be C.UTF-8 instead of just plain C, then?
It's a game of whack-a-mole. You can always fix that place you just noticed where it's missing, but then a few days later it's in another place. Not saying that we should be initializing the locale properly, but rather than we can do both independently. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list -- python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org