Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] Partially revert commit d4e5ec877ca

[Matthias Maier <tamiko@43-1.org>]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018, at 10:17 CDT, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:

> "Partially revert"?  Which part isn't reverted?

Yes, it ended up being a full revert of the commit in question. I am
sorry for the sloppy wording.

> [...]
>>    Recently, however, glibc introduced a new locale "C.utf-8" that just
>>    uses UTF-8 as its charset, but otherwise leaves the semantics alone.
>>    Just setting the right character set is enough for our use case, so we
>>    can just hardcode this one without having to be afraid of nasty side
>>    effects.

> Looks like your frustration about upstream glibc is quite stale :)

Unfortunately, this statement is not correct. The corresponding glibc
bug report summarizes the current situation [1]. Fact is that a lot of
distributions ship a custom C.UTF-8 locale, for example Debian [2] (for
the currenct glibc-2.27 release). Unfortunately, not everyone applies
such custom patches. :-/

Best,
Matthias

[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17318
[2] https://sources.debian.org/patches/glibc/2.27-3/localedata/locale-C.diff/