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Re: [PATCH] locale: Fix localedef exit code [BZ #22292]

On 10/15/2017 11:19 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

(b) Do not make ASCII compatibility a warning. See the large comment
     in locale/programs/charmap.c line ~205. It would appear that the
     SHIFT_JIS* charmaps violate this ISO C requirement, which could
     cause problems for some programs, thus the warning
     (in localedata/gen-locale.sh I work around this for SHIFT_SJIS
     for testing shift charmaps).
Running a system with Shift JIS may introduce security vulnerabilities because parts of the system will disagree where string literals end, due different interpretations of the 0x5c codepoint.
I think we should add a command line argument to localedef which turns off returning exit status 1 for locales which are not ASCII-compatible. 

Thanks,
Florian
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