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Re:Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of s... by butlerm on Thursday January 12, 2023 @02:22AM (#34350266)
Presumably you can set LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 in most environments to deal with that problem.
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Re:Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of s... by loeg on Thursday January 12, 2023 @02:52AM (#34350450)
C.UTF-8 doesn't save you anything locale-wise? I believe you're still on the slow path for character matching.
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