Re: supporting obscure languages

[Eric Blake]

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According to Bruno Haible on 11/28/2009 3:34 AM:
>> b. The "C" locale is not UTF-8. (this need not be the case)
> 
> The "C" locale was defined at a time when there was no UTF-8. This
> choice accommodates for output devices that cannot display arbitrary
> Unicode characters (think of ssh into an older Unix system).

But POSIX explicitly allows the "C" locale to use UTF-8, and in fact, that
is the case on cygwin 1.7.  Per POSIX, the "C" locale is only portable for
character operations for bytes < 128.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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