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

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 27 April 2020 13:54:13 PDT Simon Hausmann wrote:
> I looked at the patch again and searched a bit around. I think nl_langinfo
> is “broken” on macOS but it doesn’t matter: everything seems to be utf-8,
> all system APIs expect it. I think the CI is well configured and the patch
> should treat Darwin like Android 

nl_langinfo is not broken on Mac. I tested it on 10.14 and 10.15 and it works 
just fine. More importantly, setlocale() obeys the LC_ALL behaviour to change 
the locale of the POSIX functions just fine.

What I need is that the CI set LANG or LC_ALL to "UTF-8". Somehow, the CI 
either unset that or was run from an environment that didn t have it set in he 
first place.

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  Software Architect - Intel System Software Products