[Clfs-commits] [CLFS Trac] #182: UTF-8

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#182: UTF-8
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  Reporter:  ken    |       Owner:  clfs-commits at lists.cross-lfs.org.
      Type:  task   |      Status:  new                              
  Priority:  minor  |   Milestone:  CLFS Standard 1.2.0              
 Component:  BOOK   |     Version:  CLFS Standard SVN                
Resolution:         |    Keywords:                                   
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Comment (by ken):

 Replying to [comment:11 jim]:
 > I've been adding in the utf-8 support in various commits. Working on
 changing the way we currently build ncurses right now.
 >
 > Ken I would appreciate it if you could test the new groff and man
 capabilities to make sure it works as expected.
 >
 > I've also been playing around about making the build only utf-8
 compliant altogether. Having glibc only install the utf-8 locales. Any
 comments on this idea.

 Yeah, I saw you were busy!  I've added the testing to my To Do List - will
 be a week or two before I get round to it.

 For removing other locales, I'm not so sure. Aside from people who use
 other locales such as koi8, there might be an impact on test suites,
 either now or in the future. My own builds only support utf-8, but I
 install all locales and in fact I don't know of any convenient way of
 installing ALL the utf-8 locales except by installing every locale.

 For glibc's own testsuite, looking at 2.8's localedata/Makefile I get the
 impression the LOCALES  variable might create all the locales needed (if
 not cross-compiling), but every other package can add new test cases with
 extra locales at any time.

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