[Linux-SIG] PEP 538: Coercing the legacy C locale to C.UTF-8

[Felix Yan]

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

IMHO it would be nice to have an option to disable the usage of C.UTF-8.

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Regards,
Felix Yan

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