C.UTF-8 in squeeze (was: Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised locale)

2011-01-08 Thread Roger Leigh
clone 522776 -1 reassign -1 eglibc retitle -1 eglibc: Please provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default severity -1 important thanks On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 09:14:47PM -0500, David Holland wrote: Can this please get done (adding a C.UTF-8 locale)? It is absolutely required for writing shell scripts

Re: C.UTF-8 in squeeze (was: Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised locale)

2011-01-08 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:44:56 +, Roger Leigh wrote: This will only be done with the approval of the release team, who I've copied in. I don't think that's not going to happen. Try again for wheezy, and maybe you can manage not to wait until the last minute of the freeze. Cheers,

Re: C.UTF-8 in squeeze (was: Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised locale)

2011-01-08 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:57:05 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:44:56 +, Roger Leigh wrote: This will only be done with the approval of the release team, who I've copied in. I don't think that's not going to happen. Try again for wheezy, and

Re: C.UTF-8 in squeeze (was: Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised locale)

2011-01-08 Thread David Holland
On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 11:44:56AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: Can this please get done (adding a C.UTF-8 locale)? It is absolutely required for writing shell scripts that handle UTF-8 data, if you want those shell scripts to have anything like portable or reliable behavior. This is