Simon McVittie left as an exercise for the reader: > If you care about portability to non-Debian systems, note that C.UTF-8 is > a somewhat popular extension (I think it originated in the Fedora/Red Hat > family before it was adopted by Debian and other distros) but is far from > universally available. In particular, I'm aware of Arch Linux specifically > *not* having it. The glibc maintainers consider the implementation used > in e.g. Fedora and Debian to be a hack rather than something they want to > maintain forever, but my understanding is that they would be willing to > accept a better implementation.
As I "need" this only within the Debian Salsa CI (and only to deal with this groff lintian warning, which it sounds like will be handled another way), a Debian-specific solution would be fine =]. Thanks for the details -- C.UTF-8 sounds like the right way to go. -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.
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