[arch-general] Including compiled C.UTF-8 locale by default in glibc package? Inbox

Greg Minshall minshall at umich.edu
Tue Feb 22 03:35:48 UTC 2022


Neven,

> A C program is in the "C" locale already when it reaches the main
> function, so I think there's no point to calling it again.

ah, thanks.  i didn't know that.

with the new "C.UTF-8", possibly it makes sense to try falling back to
that locale (after "" fails), before defaulting to the "C" locale?

cheers, Greg


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