From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/5643 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Locale bikeshed time Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 04:00:31 -0400 Message-ID: <20140727080031.GU4038@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20140723192503.GG16795@example.net> <20140723210120.GD11570@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20140724153526.GH16795@example.net> <20140724160150.GA4038@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20140724201548.GM16795@example.net> <20140724220228.GB4038@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20140725090649.GN16795@example.net> <20140725201551.GQ16795@example.net> <20140726204329.GR4038@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20140727075120.GB16795@example.net> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406448055 15461 80.91.229.3 (27 Jul 2014 08:00:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 08:00:55 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-5648-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Jul 27 10:00:48 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XBJNw-0004TB-KD for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 10:00:48 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 14040 invoked by uid 550); 27 Jul 2014 08:00:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 14029 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2014 08:00:44 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140727075120.GB16795@example.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:5643 Archived-At: On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 09:51:20AM +0200, u-igbb@aetey.se wrote: > 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. OK. I actually expected you to prefer symlinks, but if you prefer musl automatically ignoring everything after the dot, I'm quite happy with that approach and I'll probably go with it. Thanks for the feedback! Rich