From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,
GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
libc-locales@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Output of `locale -a` could be in mixed encodings?
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 04:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54BF2EC3.2000809@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54BF0D06.6020000@redhat.com>
Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Won't such a fix break existing applications relying on this alias
> to operate correctly?
There shouldn't be any such applications. Applications are already on notice
that they should not be relying on these obsolete aliases.
This bug is biting us now because recent versions of GNU grep are stricter about
treating non-text input as binary. Existing applications that apply 'grep' to
locale.alias may have problems if locale.alias is incompatible with the current
locale's encoding. This suggests that locale.alias (including its comments)
should be ASCII only.
> What I need is a way to mark the locale deprecated, accept it as an
> alias, but not display it in `locale -a`.
That would also be nice, though I expect it's lower priority. I assume that it
could be done with an ASCII-only locale.alias, somehow.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-21 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-21 1:38 Carlos O'Donell
2015-01-21 2:06 ` Paul Eggert
2015-01-21 2:30 ` Carlos O'Donell
2015-01-21 4:50 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2015-01-21 2:37 ` Joseph Myers
2015-01-21 16:19 ` Martin Sebor
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