Piotr Engelking <[email protected]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[email protected]>:
>> Do you think the man-db warning results would ever change based on >> things that would change about the locale, particularly at this point >> in the maturity of en_US.UTF-8? It seems unlikely to me on first >> glance. > en_US.UTF-8 certainly does change from time to time, for an example to > add new characters to the LC_CTYPE character classes when new Unicode > versions are released. I do not know if these changes would affect the > man-db warnings, but the above changelog entry suggests that lintian may > plan to use its private locale copy for other purposes as well. Nope, that's all we're using it for. If we had a C.UTF-8 locale, we'd use that instead; we just need *some* UTF-8 locale for man-db and its utilities to not explode. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
