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Re: contrib/gcc_update in non-english locales
On 22/04/2010 09:30, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 04/22/2010 10:44 AM, Dave Korn wrote:
>> Does that mean there's no way to explicitly specify plain ASCII encoding?
>> Or does it mean you have to use iso-8859-whatever-it-is or one of the
>> codepage based names?
>
> C defaults to ASCII and there's no way to change it (I did read the
> followup, this is just to clarify).
Gotcha. So, actually we'd probably be best of all by selecting en_UK or
en_US or some similar plain English locale in which the translations are known
(and specifically, are known to be null translations) and for which we /are/
allowed to append the ".ASCII" codeset specifier?
cheers,
DaveK