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Subject: [gentoo-python] Supporting non-UTF-8 locales
From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
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This issue seems to keep coming up in bug reports, especially those
filed by Diego from his tinderbox. Basically, the way I/O is handled
in python3 often causes build failures or test failures if you do not
have a UTF-8 locale set. Ideally, upstream developers would write
their code to deal with this, but that's a bit of a pipe dream.
Gentoo as a whole can't seem to make its mind up, but can the python
team come to a rough consensus as to whether we want to support
non-UTF-8 locales for python packages?
I'm sitting on the fence at the moment: I tend to fix issues if they
cause build failures, but I ignore any test failures.
If we decide to support non-UTF-8 locales, we need to stop leaving
bugzilla comments like "please use a sane locale".
If we decide against supporting non-UTF-8 locales, I think we should
begin to close such bugs as WONTFIX on a consistent basis.
My vote would be to not support non-UTF-8 locales -- it just isn't
worth the effort.
Thoughts?