From d7a3a67a38a7c3b2590f4f4718f35548a7610e86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Victor Stinner Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 03:06:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] PEP 540: Remove Alpine Linux Alpine Linux uses C.UTF-8 locale by default, not the POSIX locale. --- pep-0540.txt | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/pep-0540.txt b/pep-0540.txt index ec5e76220..af1ac016e 100644 --- a/pep-0540.txt +++ b/pep-0540.txt @@ -38,9 +38,7 @@ the locale; the encoding and the locale are tightly coupled. Many users inherit the ASCII encoding from the POSIX locale, aka the "C" locale, but are unable change the locale for different reasons. This encoding is very limited in term of Unicode support: any non-ASCII -character is likely to cause troubles. For example, the Alpine Linux -distribution became popular thanks to Docker containers, but it uses the -POSIX locale by default. +character is likely to cause troubles. It is not easy to get the expected locale. Locales don't get the exact same name on all Linux distributions, FreeBSD, macOS, etc. Some