C.UTF-8 locale

Elan Ruusamäe glen at pld-linux.org
Wed Dec 18 21:44:58 CET 2013


On 18/12/13 17:51, Paweł Gołaszewski wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2013, Jacek Konieczny wrote:
>> Current upstream GIT code expects C.UTF-8 locale being available for
>> properly processing i18n files. I also find this locale usefull – one
>> may want to tell system to use UTF-8 instead of ASCII, but do no other
>> localisation.
>>
>> However, we don't have such locale in our glibc-localedb-all, nor is it
>> generated by localedbgen (at least, not by default). For GRUB I made
>> a workaround by BR: glibc-localedb-all and using 'en_US.utf-8' instead
>> of 'C.utf-8', but I think it might be a good idea to ship 'C.utf-8' in
>> PLD by default.
>>
>> What do you think?
> go ahead :)
>
yes, especially as osx have such locale by default(?), and logging in to 
pld machine says unknown locale error (warning)

-- 
glen



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