From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
To: Godmar Back <godmar@gmail.com>
Cc: libc-help <libc-help@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: why does `LANG` not influence the locale in GNU/Linux
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:53:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <66ee4888-f173-cad0-d4cd-dcc076526ecf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB4+JY+NHW7tYdNvVJWr0-qv5zzuvSTf1yqX0Lj94Bkj0-9uMg@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/27/22 00:40, Godmar Back wrote:
> It's slightly ironic if you read, for instance PEP-538 [*] that claims
> that Python has a need "to use the configured locale encoding by
> default for consistency with other locale-aware components in the same
> process or subprocesses" when the default behavior in a Unix
> environment is to not be locale-aware and revert back to the C locale.
Nick Coghlan is the author of PEP-538, and not coincidentally, opened bug 17318
which we just resolved for glibc 2.35 with the addition of a C.UTF-8 that
harmonizes the downstream distribution implementations (and minimized it).
The creation of C.UTF-8 was partly driven by GNOME and Python needs to have
an "always on" UTF-8 encoded locale that could be used as a fallback, rather
than the ASCII C/POSIX locale [1][2].
I feel like this is less about locale awareness and more about the encoding of
information using UTF-8 by default.
> [*] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0538/
--
Cheers,
Carlos.
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313818
[2] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17318
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-27 0:35 Godmar Back
2022-01-27 5:28 ` Carlos O'Donell
2022-01-27 5:40 ` Godmar Back
2022-01-27 5:53 ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
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