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Message-ID: <20140727075120.GB16795@example.net> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 09:51:20 +0200 From: u-igbb@...ey.se To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: Locale bikeshed time On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 04:43:29PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote: > I wasn't quite sure where to inject this reply into the thread, but > one thing I just remembered is that glibc (and the XSI option for > POSIX) has [.charset] as part of the standard form for locale names, > and all of glibc's usable locales end in ".UTF-8". So a user on a > mixed system is likely to have their locale vars set to include > ".UTF-8 "at the end, and therefore wouldn't get any localization when > running musl-linked programs with the locale names we've proposed. Ah yes this is regrettable. The transition from legacy charsets/encodings has already happened and even with glibc .UTF-8 is a de-facto default, thus "shouldn't" have to be indicated. > The way I see it, we could either have the locale package provide > symlinks to all of the locales with ".UTF-8" on the end, or musl > itself could ignore anything starting with the first '.' in a locale > name. One downside of symlinks is that a locale could uselessly get > mapped twice if somebody happens to reference it by both names in > their locale vars. It also puts more of a configuration/complexity > burden on the installation. But it does keep policy out of libc and > saves a few bytes of code in libc. As an integrator I certainly appreciate if I can skip making zillions of legacy links. There is also a matter of spelling utf-8 Utf-8 UTF-8 utf8 UTF8 Utf8 utf_8 (did I forget some? :) which different distros/users may choose differently. Debian Linux: $ locale -a C C.UTF-8 <===== en_US.utf8 <===== POSIX $ Given that the library implies utf-8, please ignore .anything explicitly - this part of the name is meaningless for musl by design. A packager can not fully imitate such behaviour even with a lot of links. The rare cases when the user really means a different charset but gets utf-8 are better handled by the user if/when encountered. Rune
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