Re: non-ASCII characters in locale.alias file

[Ulrich Drepper]

Tomohiro KUBOTA <address@hidden> writes:

> I think usage of non-ASCII characters here is invalid.
> (In future, we may or may not use UTF-8).

No, why?  The file is never read with the wide string functions which
would require it to be encoded in one specific charset.  It is simply
a sequence of bytes with fields separated by white spaces.  As long as
none of the non-ASCII characters uses white spaces (and no used
charset violates this rules or else it couldn't be used here) this
work just fine.  These sequences of bytes are then compared with the
content of environment variables.  No need for restrictions.

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