Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 05:33:35PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > If you need a specific locale (as seems from "mksh", not
> > sure if it is a bug in that program), you need to set it.
> You can only set a locale on a glibc-based system if it’s
> installed beforehand, which root needs to do.
You can build-depend on the locales package and generate the locales you
want locally, using LOCPATH to reference them. There's no need for Debian
to guarantee the presence of a particular locale ahead of time -
particularly one that isn't actually useful to end users, as C.UTF-8 would
be.
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