Subject: bug#20823: argv mangled by locale

From: Zefram <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 23:24:41 +0000

I wrote:
>My comments about resolution in bug#20822 "environment mangled by locale"
>mostly apply here too,

The revised comments that I have just made on that ticket also apply
here.  Short version: "absence of setlocale" isn't a useful criterion,
so explicit control of encoding will be necessary.

-zefram