[arch-general] Including compiled C.UTF-8 locale by default in glibc package? Inbox
Geert Hendrickx
geert at hendrickx.be
Tue Feb 15 08:10:00 UTC 2022
On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 00:08:04 +0100, Daan De Meyer via arch-general wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now that glibc 2.35 is available, could we enable and ship the
> compiled form of the new C.UTF-8 locale in glibc by default in Arch
> Linux?
>
> From the glibc 2.35 release notes
> (https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-February/136040.html):
>
> > * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
> > supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
> > limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
> > a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
> > supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
> > only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
> > Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
> > in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
> > glibc, and must be installed.
>
> Being able to rely on the existence of a UTF-8 english locale
> simplifies many use cases. A good example of issues introduced due to
> a lack of a built-in UTF-8 locale is
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/8340 which is a workaround
> added in 2018 that still exists today. Having the C.UTF-8 locale
> available by default in Arch would enable removing such workarounds.
>
> Any thoughts?
That would indeed be neat.
But let's at least wait until the next glibc release[*] that will fix this:
Generating locales...
C.UTF-8...failed to set locale!
[error] LC_MONETARY: value for field `mon_decimal_point' must not be an
empty string
done
[*] or just grab these patches:
https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/cover/20220131053442.3995804-1-carlos@redhat.com/
https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/patch/20220131053442.3995804-2-carlos@redhat.com/
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/glibc/patch/20220131053442.3995804-3-carlos@redhat.com/
Geert
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