Phillip Susi <ps...@ubuntu.com> writes: > On 8/13/2014 7:53 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hello, >> >> t0251-gpt-unicode.sh requires the C.UTF-8 locale and fails if it >> isn’t available. >> >> What about: >> >> 1. Exiting with 77 when the locale is unavailable? >> >> 2. Choosing another locale, such as en_US.utf8? As of GNU libc >> 2.19, C.UTF-8 (or any other spelling) does not exist. > > How can the C locale possibly not exist on a system that is not > totally broken? It is the default and fallback locale when you don't > have any locales installed.
C.UTF-8 is a non-standard Debian extension. It is not available in upstream GNU libc, and it is absent from other popular distributions such as Fedora and Arch. See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902094 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32296 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522776 Mark
