On 3 January 2017 at 17:51, Felix Yan <felixonm...@archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 01/03/2017 02:00 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > I'm posting it here to ask if anyone sees potential deal-breakers for > > other non-Fedora-derived distros before I post it to python-dev for > review. > > AFAIK the C.UTF-8 locale is still a downstream patch and not accepted in > glibc upstream. Arch has closed the request as wontfix some years ago: > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32296 It is, and https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17318 is the upstream issue I filed with glibc for that. However, upstream glibc are in the situation where the 1.5 MiB of UTF-8 data is a relatively big addition for them, while it isn't that big a deal relative to the CPython runtime or a full Linux kernel. > IMHO it would be nice to have an option to disable the usage of C.UTF-8. > Yep, that's part of the PEP - if you set PYTHONALLOWCLOCALE, CPython 3.7 would still complain about it, but it wouldn't try to coerce the locale to something else. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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