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 1D8D01384B4 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:34:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14A8E21C12F; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:34:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E78CE21C0E4 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:34:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-io0-f169.google.com (mail-io0-f169.google.com [209.85.223.169]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: floppym) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 31D4F3406C2 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:34:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iouu10 with SMTP id u10so42290279iou.0 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:34:44 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.107.155.78 with SMTP id d75mr3969054ioe.94.1447288484922; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:34:44 -0800 (PST) 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 Received: by 10.107.3.27 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:34:25 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <22083.52411.201969.798008@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <20151110235311.GR5154@vapier.lan> <20151111025145.GU5154@vapier.lan> <5642DD4A.3090700@gentoo.org> <20151111123950.6bd42957@googlemail.com> <22083.25427.444464.942623@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <87d1vgi3dj.fsf@jackdaw.kyomu.43-1.org> <22083.52411.201969.798008@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> From: Mike Gilbert Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:34:25 -0500 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Revise EAPI 6? To: Gentoo Dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 60b1fd2f-9d66-4921-88f1-34a18115e515 X-Archives-Hash: 775be17140998bb75fc6ca66bacdbab4 On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, Matthias Maier wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015, at 15:52 CST, "Jason A. Donenfeld" wrote: > >>> I'd be in favor of full-on LC_ALL=C. > >> ++ > >> I'm surprised that we do not have such a policy already. > > LC_ALL=C would disable UTF-8, and I am told that this would cause > problems for e.g. Python 3. What we would really want is C.UTF-8 [1] > but that's neither a standard nor is it ready. > I can work around it in the python eclasses by adjusting the python_export_utf8_locale function, but would prefer not to do that. > In the meantime, we could go with the minimum changes necessary to > unbreak the bash 4.2 case conversion operators. Setting LC_COLLATE > to C and LC_CTYPE to some sane locale should be sufficient for that. If you want to force specific locale categories to C, I don't mind. I would just prefer that you don't mess with LC_ALL and keep LC_CTYPE to something with UTF-8 support.