Re: [Reproducible-builds] [PATCH 2/2] DocBook: Use a fixed encoding for output

2015-09-18 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 01:32:50 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I guess I have to ask, though: doesn't it seem that having the docs > > produced according to the current locale is the Right Thing to do? Users > > have their locale set as it is for a reason, it seems like the production > > of textua

Re: [Reproducible-builds] [PATCH 2/2] DocBook: Use a fixed encoding for output

2015-09-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 13:30 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 23:49:19 +0100 > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Currently the encoding of documents generated by DocBook depends on > > the current locale. Make the output reproducible independently of > > the locale, by setting the enc

Re: [Reproducible-builds] [PATCH 2/2] DocBook: Use a fixed encoding for output

2015-09-12 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 17:40:33 -0400 Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > I sympathize with Jonathan's general concern here -- if this patchset > makes it impossible for people to build documentation with (for example) > their preferred collation order, it would be suboptimal. > > On the other hand, this

Re: [Reproducible-builds] [PATCH 2/2] DocBook: Use a fixed encoding for output

2015-09-11 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri 2015-09-11 15:30:59 -0400, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 23:49:19 +0100 > Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> Currently the encoding of documents generated by DocBook depends on >> the current locale. Make the output reproducible independently of >> the locale, by setting the encoding

Re: [Reproducible-builds] [PATCH 2/2] DocBook: Use a fixed encoding for output

2015-09-11 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 23:49:19 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > Currently the encoding of documents generated by DocBook depends on > the current locale. Make the output reproducible independently of > the locale, by setting the encoding to UTF-8 (LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8) by > preference, or ASCII (LC_CTYPE=