On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 05:41:45PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 11:56:44PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> Along similar lines, what do folks think of the idea of patching
>> Python 3.6 in Fedora to assume UTF-8 if it's told that it should use
>> ASCII to communicate with the OS?
> +1
>
> Non-utf8 environments are nowadays a rarity, OTOH misconfigured
> installations which do support utf8 but are just missing an env var
> are rather common (e.g. mock).
Why aren't we fixing Fedora Cloud/Atomic and the container images to
be C.UTF-8 instead of just plain C, then?
It's a game of whack-a-mole. You can always fix that place you just
noticed where it's missing, but then a few days later it's in another
place. Not saying that we should be initializing the locale properly,
but rather than we can do both independently.
Zbyszek