Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default

2012-08-02 Thread Luca Barbato
On 07/27/2012 07:24 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > yes, and i'm waiting on the POSIX group to formalize C.UTF-8. that's the > only > real option in my mind for making unicode the default. any other > amalgamations of various locales is ugly as sin. When they meet? I'd be fine with a pre-release

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default

2012-08-02 Thread Kent Fredric
On 31 July 2012 05:33, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 07/30/12 12:28, Michał Górny wrote: >> >> My point here is that you want the thing to change. So you first try to >> convince people here to change. We practically did a small survey here >> and in the result we didn't agree on doing the change.

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default

2012-08-02 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:21:40 -0700 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 01/08/2012 23:42, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > Honestly, if some asian person has whatever charset that I often > > find in spam messages, but is not UTF-8, are you then going to tell > > that person to switch to UTF-8 to get those py

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default

2012-08-02 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 01/08/2012 23:42, Fabian Groffen wrote: >> Honestly, if some asian person has whatever charset that I often find in >> spam messages, but is not UTF-8, are you then going to tell that person >> to switch to UTF-8 to get those python pa

[gentoo-dev] Re: UTF-8 locale by default

2012-08-02 Thread Duncan
Peter Stuge posted on Thu, 02 Aug 2012 07:36:07 +0200 as excerpted: > Walter Dnes wrote: >> The fact that "other distros do it" does not constitute justification >> for us to do it. > > Unfortunately that exact reason, along with "Fedora is doing it", was > cited by a very active developer as rea

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default

2012-08-02 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 01/08/2012 23:42, Fabian Groffen wrote: > Honestly, if some asian person has whatever charset that I often find in > spam messages, but is not UTF-8, are you then going to tell that person > to switch to UTF-8 to get those python packages emerged? I hope not. Tell that to the Python team I gue

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default

2012-08-02 Thread Stelian Ionescu
On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 08:42 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 01-08-2012 21:00:23 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > Diego mentioned the python issue. > > Honestly, if some asian person has whatever charset that I often find in > spam messages, but is not UTF-8, are you then going to tell that person