From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:00:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d39bab83.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jhn2is$cpq$1@dough.gmane.org> (Kerin Millar's message of "Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:31:55 +0000")
>>>>> "KM" == Kerin Millar <kerframil@gmail.com> writes:
KM> Arch also used to define LC_COLLATE="C" by default, probably to
KM> mitigate unpredictable behaviour in some applications, but have
KM> since dropped this additional variable so they must have deemed it
KM> no longer necessary.
Without LC_COLLATE="C" things like [a-z]* gets a false=positive match
on files like Makefile.
I recently noticed a bug on b.g.o where the ebuild has something like
doc/[A-Z]* expecting that it will not match doc/some_lowercase_subdir.
The bug, of course, is that glibc fraudulently defaults the latin, greek
and cyrillic locales to case-insensitive.
The real fix is to have root be C.UTF-8. Which differs from C only in
that the charset is utf-8.
-JimC
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-19 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-15 11:58 [gentoo-dev] LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default Francesco R.(vivo)
2012-02-15 12:22 ` Mr. Aaron W. Swenson
2012-02-18 2:31 ` [gentoo-dev] " Kerin Millar
2012-02-19 1:00 ` James Cloos [this message]
2012-02-19 2:04 ` Ben
2012-02-19 11:39 ` Amadeusz Żołnowski
2012-02-19 15:14 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-02-19 15:56 ` Ben
2012-02-19 18:44 ` Kerin Millar
2012-02-19 20:03 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-02-20 0:11 ` William Hubbs
2012-02-20 3:07 ` Kerin Millar
2012-02-20 7:47 ` Fabian Groffen
2012-02-20 12:27 ` Kerin Millar
2012-02-19 19:14 ` Kerin Millar
2012-02-20 9:49 ` [gentoo-dev] " Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
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