Re: Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale
Roger Leigh dixit:
>But, does it not reject non 7-bit input in the C
>locale for completeness?
No, it doesn't - "we" (before my time though, I think) fought
hard for eight-bit transparence and eight-bit cleanliness.
>Should tools doing "raw" I/O not be using lower level interfaces
>such as fread() and fwrite()
These too are affected.
//mirabilos
--
“It is inappropriate to require that a time represented as
seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of
seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.”
-- IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX) Section B.2.2.2
Reply to: