Bug#1010682: sysvinit-core: let's default LANG to C.UTF-8

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Sat, 7 May 2022, Adam Borowski wrote:

> I've proposed this myself several years ago but it was then rejected.  IIRC
> one of the concerns raised was that eg. Postgresql tools do "unset LANG
> LC_ALL LC_CTYPE" to get the "C" locale.

File a bug against those then; POSIX explicitly states that if all
variables are empty the implementation-defined default locale is used,
and MirBSD, musl and, from what I heard, now also OpenBSD also default
to UTF-8-capable locales.

I don't recall where I read about this re. glibc; best to ask the
Debian packaging team whether there is talk.

I wouldn't hold my breath for it for now though and do it in sysvinit
for internal Debian consistency though.

bye,
//mirabilos
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