[Python-Dev] PEP 538: Coercing the legacy C locale to a UTF-8 based locale

[Nick Coghlan]

On 16 March 2017 at 00:30, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On Mar 15, 2017, at 12:29 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> >From a mainstream Linux point of view, it's not common - on
> systemd-managed
> >systems, for example, the only way to get the C locale these days is to
> >either specify it in /etc/locale.conf, or to set it specifically in the
> >environment.
>
> I think it's still the case that some isolation environments (e.g. Debian
> chroots) default to bare C locales.  Often it doesn't matter, but sometimes
> tests or other applications run inside those environments will fail in ways
> they don't in a normal execution environment.


Yeah, I think mock (the Fedora/RHEL/CentOS build environment for RPMs)
still defaults to a bare C locale, and Docker environments usually aren't
systemd-managed in the first place (since PID 1 inside a container
typically isn't an init system at all). The general trend for all of those
seems to be "they don't use C.UTF-8... yet", though (even though some of
them may not shift until the default changes at the level of the given
distro's libc implementation).

  The answer is almost always to
> explicitly coerce those environments to C.UTF-8 for Linuxes that support
> that.
>

I also double checked that "LANG=C ./python -m test" still worked with the
reference implementation.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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