[Bug libc/17318] [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default

["carlos at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17318

Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Nick Coghlan from comment #0)
> Fedora doesn't currently provide the C.UTF-8 locale. In the RFE requesting
> it (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902094), it was suggested
> that a more appropriate would be for it to be provided as part of upstream
> glibc, at which point Fedora would inherit it by default.
> 
> Hence, this RFE to request the inclusion of a C.UTF-8 locale by default.
> 
> My personal interest relates to Python 3, where "LANG=C" misconfigures a few
> aspects to use ASCII, when they really should be using UTF-8. While I'd
> actually like to fix that on the Python side in the long run, being able to
> set "LANG=C.UTF-8" instead is a solution that already works for existing
> versions of Python 3.
> 
> Bug #16621 suggests that C.UTF-8 may actually require special casing in
> glibc in order to be handled correctly. If that's accurate, then it would
> strengthen the case for including the locale in the upstream library.

I agree that this is a good idea. Someone needs to do the work and submit it to
libc-alpha. It's not all that easy, and consensus needs to be reached about the
inclusion of ~1.5MB of UTF-8 data into the runtime.

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