Aurelien Jarno dixit:
>Because it is supposed to replace the C locale, so to follow POSIX
>rules like the C locale. I am personally not convinced that we should go
It’s supposed to offer a POSIX/C locale but with UTF-8 as
character set instead of 7-bit US ASCII, like the “proper”
POSIX/C locale, the latter even with questionable properties
for octets with high-bit7 – to achieve better overall usability
of UTF-8 as standard encoding, for example.
bye,
//mirabilos
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