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by throw1234567891 4 days ago
UTF-8 is a character encoding and therefore it cannot serve as a locale. There is no UTF-8 language, punctuation, date and number formats…
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I mean, UTF-8 string handling is language (of the given bitstream, not necessarily the system) dependent, e.g. Turkish lowercase I, Chinese Hanzi vs Japanese Kanji at same codepoints, etc etc...