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Re:Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with G... by tredre3 on Sunday December 14, 2025 @09:11PM (#46269603)
Many of the utils, such as sort, aren't locale-aware. Considering that most of the world do not use English/ASCII, do you still consider that an irrelevant edge case?
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Re:Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with G... by steveklabnik on Sunday December 14, 2025 @10:04PM (#46269992)
I don't consider it irrelevant, but neither does uutils. However, it's also not something that is currently at a zero. I'm not even sure that this percentage of tests is related to locale support specifically. I'm sure parity will be reached here.

For example, sort has an open PR on it right now.

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Re:Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with G... by pseudalopex on Monday December 15, 2025 @04:29PM (#46280963)
> I'm sure parity will be reached here.

And this project should be considered then. Not before.

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Re:Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with G... by steveklabnik on Monday December 15, 2025 @06:09PM (#46282201)
I would be surprised if they decided to go ahead without more robust locale support, I agree with that.
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