contrib/gcc_update in non-english locales

[Dave Korn]

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