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From:
Zefram
Date:
April 23, 2016 23:07
Subject:
Re: RFC: refuse to change into an unsupported locale
Message ID:
20160423230730.GP8328@fysh.org
Karl Williamson wrote:
>Perl supports most single-byte locales, plus UTF-8 locales.

What do you mean by "Perl supports"?  What kind of support is required
from Perl?

>On some platforms, just switching into some of these locales can
>cause perl to segfault (or rather it is a bug in the libc in failing
>to detect garbage input)

We can't be expected to work around such a libc bug.

-zefram
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