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Author	ncoghlan
Recipients	Sworddragon, a.badger, bkabrda, larry, lemburg, loewis, ncoghlan, pitrou, r.david.murray, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date	2013-12-09.22:50:02
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Message-id	<CADiSq7dwa=QfcRUcQQtHoNM1uFfc7MdA0t7MQOxs94swdXeHEg@mail.gmail.com>
In-reply-to	<1386585736.77.0.335520394132.issue19846@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

Content
There's a wrong assumption here: glib applications on Linux use UTF-8 regardless of locale. That's the part I have a problem with: the assumption that the locale will correctly specify the encoding to use for OS APIs on modern Linux systems. It's simply not always true: some Linux distros would be better handled like OS X, where we always use UTF-8, regardless of what the locale says.

There's a wrong assumption here: glib applications on Linux use UTF-8
regardless of locale. That's the part I have a problem with: the assumption
that the locale will correctly specify the encoding to use for OS APIs on
modern Linux systems.

It's simply not always true: some Linux distros would be better handled
like OS X, where we always use UTF-8, regardless of what the locale says.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2013-12-09 22:50:02	ncoghlan	set	recipients: + ncoghlan, lemburg, loewis, terry.reedy, pitrou, vstinner, larry, a.badger, r.david.murray, Sworddragon, serhiy.storchaka, bkabrda
2013-12-09 22:50:02	ncoghlan	link	issue19846 messages
2013-12-09 22:50:02	ncoghlan	create