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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] Partially revert commit d4e5ec877ca
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Matthias Maier |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] Partially revert commit d4e5ec877ca |
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Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:51:19 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018, at 10:17 CDT, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> "Partially revert"? Which part isn't reverted?
Yes, it ended up being a full revert of the commit in question. I am
sorry for the sloppy wording.
> [...]
>> Recently, however, glibc introduced a new locale "C.utf-8" that just
>> uses UTF-8 as its charset, but otherwise leaves the semantics alone.
>> Just setting the right character set is enough for our use case, so we
>> can just hardcode this one without having to be afraid of nasty side
>> effects.
> Looks like your frustration about upstream glibc is quite stale :)
Unfortunately, this statement is not correct. The corresponding glibc
bug report summarizes the current situation [1]. Fact is that a lot of
distributions ship a custom C.UTF-8 locale, for example Debian [2] (for
the currenct glibc-2.27 release). Unfortunately, not everyone applies
such custom patches. :-/
Best,
Matthias
[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17318
[2] https://sources.debian.org/patches/glibc/2.27-3/localedata/locale-C.diff/