On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:41:18PM +0300, Jussi Pakkanen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 5:37 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > I believe that meson assumes it's built using a UTF-8 locale. Is this > > something we can have debhelper handle automatically for the meson > > buildsystem? > A more interesting question is why does Debian insist on using a > default setting from 1968? Utf-8 has been around and used by default > for 10+ years. Why is it not the default for package building by now? Because the transition is fraught. C.UTF-8 is now built and always available as part of the libc package, but it's not built into the binary and making libc itself treat it as a built-in default is problematic; which means there's a need to configure C.UTF-8 on the system at install time as the default. It is the correct thing to do going forward; it's just a little unclear how to get there cleanly. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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