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[Python-ideas] RFC: PEP 540 version 3 (Add a new UTF-8 mode)

Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Thu Jan 12 11:10:01 EST 2017 
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 04:25:56PM +0100, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-01-12 9:45 GMT+01:00 INADA Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com>:
> > When using en_US.UTF-8 as fallback, pleas override only LC_CTYPE,
> > instead of LC_ALL.
> > As I described in other thread, LC_COLLATE may cause unintentional performance
> > regression and behavior changes.
> 
> Does it work to use a locale with encoding A for LC_CTYPE and a locale
> with encoding B for LC_MESSAGES (and others)? Is there a risk of

   It does when B is a subset of A (ascii and koi8; ascii and utf8, e.g.)

> mojibake? Or do we expect that the POSIX locale speaks ASCII, and so
> it should work for use UTF-8 for LC_CTYPE since UTF-8 is able to
> decode messages encoded ASCII?

   That works for me:

$ echo $LC_CTYPE
ru_RU.UTF-8
$ echo $LC_COLLATE
ru_RU.UTF-8
$ echo $LANG
C
$ date
Thu Jan 12 19:06:13 MSK 2017

> Victor

Oleg.
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