On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 13:41, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> We can even keep the "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" and
>> *not* use LC_CTYPE if we add a bind_textdomain_codeset("git", "UTF-8")
>> call to gettext.
>
> Oh! I'd personally prefer to do that for now. :) (Not because of the
> known printf problem but because I like to reduce possible unknowns.)
By now I want to do that too. I've been experimenting with including
*printf*.c from OpenBSD, NetBSD or FreeBSD and the uClibc and in all
those cases it's a major PITA to wade through the OS-specific code
that deep in the libc.
Even if I could get that sorted it'll be non-trivial to audit all the
code whose semantics will change with LC_CTYPE, and there's a good
chance I'll miss something and cause an embarrasing bug in some
unrelated component.
Better to just document this limitation for now and decree that
gettext users must have a UTF-8 locale.
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