From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OfKPc-0003kd-Sl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:20:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A3F2E0C1A; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:20:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com (eagle.jhcloos.com [207.210.242.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43123E0B43 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:19:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id DE4A3402C5; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:19:26 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1280614790; bh=HnKYkImzQzXIUI/u1aToRNOPdusXgca6yCPCML6xWz8=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=fbvjyC4QBoTmXvfEh6TOdd6T5PF+PLNkqhV1fYebtNh2Xj32vVGa1TOkZI+EXY6cy 4WC268L3ZBQaeP1Cx+SoLHO6MhLscARg4hpf9l23crhQiVwb+cHiIBzY4JxuvbQWZ+ ZHfDhCDVkOzp4MTUCzd3xfdPgCPEmXJUgCfbxmHM= Received: from carbon.jhcloos.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carbon.jhcloos.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EA6E1CEBF0; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:14:50 +0000 (UTC) From: James Cloos To: Mike Frysinger Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Locale check in python_pkg_setup() In-Reply-To: <201007311804.52507.vapier@gentoo.org> (Mike Frysinger's message of "Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:04:51 -0400") References: <201007300116.43653.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <4C530291.2010100@gentoo.org> <201007311804.52507.vapier@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/9hAAAABHNCSVQICAgIfAhkiAAAAI1J REFUOE+lU9ESgCAIg64P1y+ngUdxhl5H8wFbbM0OmUiEhKkCYaZThXCo6KE5sCbA1DDX3genvO4d eBQgEMaM5qy6uWk4SfBYfdu9jvBN9nSVDOKRtwb+I3epboOsOX5pZbJNsBJFvmQQ05YMfieIBnYX FK2N6dOawd97r/e8RjkTLzmMsiVgrAoEugtviCM3v2WzjgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Copyright: Copyright 2009 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:14:50 -0400 Message-ID: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Hashcash: 1:30:100731:vapier@gentoo.org::g6BW1j7xEzdL2WIQ:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000UBc2Y X-Hashcash: 1:30:100731:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org::VT1lKo+FduwIlFCE:000000000000000000000000000000000D6+0I X-Archives-Salt: 27c2cf08-20d8-43f6-9725-3f67d9aa28bc X-Archives-Hash: 12fb11217d12b651d1ae5f38a99f67da >>>>> "MF" == Mike Frysinger writes: MF> take it up with the POSIX group where they're already working on MF> defining a C.UTF-8/etc... locale. Then they agree with me. Good to know. Thanks. MF> screwing with default locale when no locale variables are set is madness. I never said anything about changing C or POSIX. Only about creating C.UTF-8 and/or POSIX.UTF-8. >> The language_country locales are just wrong for root. MF> this is pure opinion Expert opinion. I've seen what can and will go wrong over the entire existance of the concept of locales (on Linux-based systems, at least). -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6