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Please do not install a charset.alias file under Mac OS X


From: Vincent Lefevre
Subject: Please do not install a charset.alias file under Mac OS X
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:12:00 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18-vl-r25739 (2008-11-11)

A number of utilities, including bison, m4 and findutils, install a
charset.alias file under Mac OS X, and this breaks the locale system
(any locale is regarded as UTF-8) [*]. The problem has been around
for a couple of years.

Moreover, even if it didn't break anything, the file is overwritten
when another such software is installed.

[*]
  http://trac.macports.org/ticket/11474
  http://trac.macports.org/ticket/11968
  http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17084

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