Fedora Rawhide glibc-2.22.90-6.fc24 shipping C.UTF-8 locale.

[DAVID Clément]

Hello Carlos,

Thank you very much for such an advancement. This feature will allow any
software to fallback on a fully internationalized locale.

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Clément <davidcl> David
A non ASCII user
Le 18 sept. 2015 07:06, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat.com> a écrit :

> Thanks to some great work by Mike FABIAN the Rawhide glibc is
> now shipping with a C.UTF-8 locale for use as a default UTF-8
> locale. The locale can be referenced as "C.UTF-8" or "C.utf8".
> Any feedback on the locale is greatly appreciated.
>
> The locale is added to the pre-processed memory mapped locale
> archive (/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive) which means there is
> little to no performance impact for having this locale. However,
> in order to make sure that the locale is robustly available in
> all scenarios, including one in which a locale archive update
> fails, the locale is added as /usr/lib/locale/C.utf8. Yes, this
> means that the locale consumes 2x1.8MB on disk for this initial
> implementation.
>
> I consider this a real step forward to providing all the upper
> stacks with a default UTF-8 locale that we can guarantee will
> always be available.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> Carlos.
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