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@@ -9,7 +9,15 @@ Version 2.35 Major new features: - [Add new features here] +* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale + supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A + limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires + a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are + supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is + only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for + Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping + in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into + glibc, and must be installed. Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: |