From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 231821381FA for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:45:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4FD121C02E; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:45:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B362F21C001 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:44:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.26.5] (ip98-164-195-43.oc.oc.cox.net [98.164.195.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AFC8433D929 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:44:31 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <50E2073E.2020004@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:44:30 -0800 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default References: <3146937.NEprMvEFLe@mephista> <201207271324.48571.vapier@gentoo.org> <501B5EBD.8060204@gentoo.org> <2114784.55M7MI4s4b@smorgbox> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-9 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 708c2655-c007-4269-af5b-4f15d7059744 X-Archives-Hash: 735bc4021a864ca2a5daa715c350bfb3 On 12/31/2012 09:14 AM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > Hi, > > stage3 now includes non-ASCII paths, via app-misc/ca-certificates -- e.g.: > /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/TÜBİTAK_UEKAE_Kök_Sertifika_Hizmet_Sağlayıcısı_-_Sürüm_3.crt > > Working with those (e.g., backup) probably requires a UTF-8 locale. Is > this considered acceptable? Did anyone notice? It's been that way for a very long time (over a year). Since bug #382199 [1], portage uses a constant UTF-8 encoding for all installed files regardless of the locale, so at least you can count on portage handling those UTF-8 names even if you don't have a UTF-8 locale configured. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382199 -- Thanks, Zac