On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:56:25PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 04:18:59PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 02:06:55PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > > Package: debian-policy > > > Version: 3.8.1.0 > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > For the mksh regression tests, I need a UTF-8 locale working; most > > > systems either provide “en_US.UTF-8” or “en_US.utf8” with the former > > > being recommended. > > > > Hello Thorsten, > > I have some sympathy with your proposal because dgettext does not work > > in the "C" locale but there are too much open question. > > Is there any hope of fixing this? I consider this hardcoded > gettext behaviour in a C locale a severe misfeature, which has caused > me (as a programmer) no end of problems.
None: I discussed extensively this issue with Bruno Haible, and while he was sympathetic to my cause, he says there were no chance that upstream glibc would accept such a change. On the other hand, technically it is a one-line patch to remove that restriction. I even considered to ship menu with a patched gettext to avoid that issue. Fortunately, since Sarge, debian-installer set LANG in /etc/environment so programs almost never run under C locale anymore. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
