[Development] RFC: Defaulting to or enforcing UTF-8 locales on Unix systems

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 4 November 2019 01:40:00 PST Edward Welbourne wrote:
> * a list of regexes for program names to which it applies, when started
>   as child processes.
> 
> Or is that too hard to implement at all the places where we call exec()
> and its equivalents ?

That's not at all what I wanted.

I want to do qputenv in the Qt application *itself*, inside QCoreApplication. 
Note the most important process that this will apply to: itself. It applies to 
all other frameworks inside the same application that may inspect the 
environment, including an extra unknown call to setlocale(LC_ALL, "").

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  Software Architect - Intel System Software Products