Re: GNU sed version 4.2.1: on OS X, C locale gets aliased to UTF-8

[Paul Eggert]

>>> now UTF-8 is set but MB_CUR_MAX is 1

That sounds bad.

On 06/01/2012 02:40 PM, Stephen J. Butler wrote:
> on darwin we're stuck with the compiled in table that defines "*"
> as "UTF-8". Yet, that's not true on any other platform.

Currently the code has this comment:

      /* To avoid the trouble of installing a file that is shared by many       
         GNU packages -- many packaging systems have problems with this --,     
         simply inline the aliases here.  */

Is the comment about packaging systems true for the systems used
on Darwin?  Perhaps we should revisit the idea of installing a
file rather than have it be hard-wired, since this problem does
seem to be bugging people.