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

[André Pönitz]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 11:38:07AM -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Monday, 4 November 2019 11:18:12 PST André Pönitz wrote:
> > A parser accepting the output of one might or might not be able to
> > handle the second.
> 
> A driver would set LC_ALL in the environment when it calls gcc.

Can we please take a step back and repeat for the slow thinker^H^H me
what the benefit of forcing a UTF-8 locale on unknown child processes
would be?

Andre'