Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2010-09-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 12:37:07AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Aurelien Jarno, le Fri 03 Sep 2010 19:16:40 +0200, a écrit : On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:20:27PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Roger Leigh, le Fri 03 Sep 2010 14:52:39 +0100, a écrit : There were no objections to having a

Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2010-09-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Giacomo A. Catenazzi, le Fri 03 Sep 2010 15:26:47 +0200, a écrit : BTW I think we should wait some more time. Last week I was on debian-glibc list a bug: printf fails if it find an invalid UTF-8 character (when the locale uses UTF-8). Note it is allowed in POSIX, which distinguish raw strings

Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2010-09-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Roger Leigh, le Fri 03 Sep 2010 14:52:39 +0100, a écrit : On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 01:37:24AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: without any convergence. I think reading back through the entire log, Thanks for having done it! people who were initially rather opposed to the proposal did come

Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2010-09-03 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Samuel Thibault dixit: believe that's something that shouldn't break Squeeze at all. I also believe it cannot possibly do that. bye, //mirabilos -- “It is inappropriate to require that a time represented as seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of seconds between the

Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2010-09-03 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:20:27PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Roger Leigh, le Fri 03 Sep 2010 14:52:39 +0100, a écrit : On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 01:37:24AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: without any convergence. I think reading back through the entire log, Thanks for having done it!

Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2010-09-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Aurelien Jarno, le Fri 03 Sep 2010 19:16:40 +0200, a écrit : On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:20:27PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Roger Leigh, le Fri 03 Sep 2010 14:52:39 +0100, a écrit : There were no objections to having a UTF-8 locale installed and available by default, just to it *being*