Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > Would a less confusing way to make this distinction be to say something > like: “The minimal Debian installation must have a locale available that > uses the UTF-8 character encoding.”?
The other angle here is that it can't just be any UTF-8 locale, since that isn't very helpful to software that needs to choose a UTF-8 locale on an automated basis. Lintian, for example, just needs *some* locale that's UTF-8, but I don't want to have to try en_US.UTF-8 and then fr.UTF-8 and then pt_BR.UTF-8 and then.... I think we need to explicitly require a *specific* UTF-8 locale be available. C.UTF-8 has a lot of appeal since it's the minimal UTF-8 locale and it doesn't get into issues of favoring one particular language and its corresponding collation rules, etc. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
