Re: [PATCH] profiles: set LC_MESSAGES to C.UTF-8, not C

Sam James <[email protected]> Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:28:34 +0100
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"Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier" <[email protected]> writes:

> [2026-06-27 17:28:13+0100] Sam James:
>>Use C.UTF-8, which we can rely on with both modern glibc (*) and also other
>>libcs like musl given it is POSIX, rather than C.
>
> Seems like a good idea.
>
> Small note, POSIX.1-2024 doesn't includes C.UTF-8, there were discussions
> but it happened too closely to release time for the work to be done:
>
> - https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=663#c1669 (comment seeking it)
> - https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1548 (dedicated bug)
>
> Also ISO C got a proposal (no idea about it's accepted status) about it:
> https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3539.pdf

Thank you for the references! Pushed with a tweaked commit message.

>
> Best regards

thanks,
sam

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