From 231b0e5c59478878dc36cf1f42d5bec96ffefa01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dorian Peron <peron@adacore.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 02:23:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] uucore: retrieve the Locale encoding from env variables

---
 Cargo.lock                              | 358 +++++++++++++++++++----
 Cargo.toml                              |   4 +-
 fuzz/Cargo.lock                         | 372 ++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/uucore/Cargo.toml                   |   7 +-
 src/uucore/src/lib/features.rs          |   2 +
 src/uucore/src/lib/features/i18n/mod.rs |  62 ++++
 src/uucore/src/lib/lib.rs               |   2 +
 7 files changed, 687 insertions(+), 120 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/uucore/src/lib/features/i18n/mod.rs

diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f8e977712..3cd0cb1c3 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ version = 4
 
 [[package]]
 name = "adler2"
-version = "2.0.0"
+version = "2.0.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "512761e0bb2578dd7380c6baaa0f4ce03e84f95e960231d1dec8bf4d7d6e2627"
+checksum = "320119579fcad9c21884f5c4861d16174d0e06250625266f50fe6898340abefa"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aho-corasick"
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "anstream"
-version = "0.6.18"
+version = "0.6.19"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8acc5369981196006228e28809f761875c0327210a891e941f4c683b3a99529b"
+checksum = "301af1932e46185686725e0fad2f8f2aa7da69dd70bf6ecc44d6b703844a3933"
 dependencies = [
  "anstyle",
  "anstyle-parse",
@@ -70,33 +70,33 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "anstyle"
-version = "1.0.10"
+version = "1.0.11"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "55cc3b69f167a1ef2e161439aa98aed94e6028e5f9a59be9a6ffb47aef1651f9"
+checksum = "862ed96ca487e809f1c8e5a8447f6ee2cf102f846893800b20cebdf541fc6bbd"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "anstyle-parse"
-version = "0.2.6"
+version = "0.2.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3b2d16507662817a6a20a9ea92df6652ee4f94f914589377d69f3b21bc5798a9"
+checksum = "4e7644824f0aa2c7b9384579234ef10eb7efb6a0deb83f9630a49594dd9c15c2"
 dependencies = [
  "utf8parse",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "anstyle-query"
-version = "1.1.2"
+version = "1.1.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "79947af37f4177cfead1110013d678905c37501914fba0efea834c3fe9a8d60c"
+checksum = "6c8bdeb6047d8983be085bab0ba1472e6dc604e7041dbf6fcd5e71523014fae9"
 dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "anstyle-wincon"
-version = "3.0.8"
+version = "3.0.9"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6680de5231bd6ee4c6191b8a1325daa282b415391ec9d3a37bd34f2060dc73fa"
+checksum = "403f75924867bb1033c59fbf0797484329750cfbe3c4325cd33127941fabc882"
 dependencies = [
  "anstyle",
  "once_cell_polyfill",
@@ -268,9 +268,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bumpalo"
-version = "3.17.0"
+version = "3.18.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1628fb46dfa0b37568d12e5edd512553eccf6a22a78e8bde00bb4aed84d5bdbf"
+checksum = "793db76d6187cd04dff33004d8e6c9cc4e05cd330500379d2394209271b4aeee"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bytecount"
@@ -292,9 +292,9 @@ checksum = "37b2a672a2cb129a2e41c10b1224bb368f9f37a2b16b612598138befd7b37eb5"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "cc"
-version = "1.2.25"
+version = "1.2.27"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d0fc897dc1e865cc67c0e05a836d9d3f1df3cbe442aa4a9473b18e12624a4951"
+checksum = "d487aa071b5f64da6f19a3e848e3578944b726ee5a4854b82172f02aa876bfdc"
 dependencies = [
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@@ -310,9 +310,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
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-version = "1.0.0"
+version = "1.0.1"
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-checksum = "baf1de4339761588bc0619e3cbc0120ee582ebb74b53b4efbf79117bd2da40fd"
+checksum = "9555578bc9e57714c812a1f84e4fc5b4d21fcb063490c624de019f7464c91268"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "cfg_aliases"
@@ -403,9 +403,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
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-version = "0.7.4"
+version = "0.7.5"
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-checksum = "f46ad14479a25103f283c0f10005961cf086d8dc42205bb44c46ac563475dca6"
+checksum = "b94f61472cee1439c0b966b47e3aca9ae07e45d070759512cd390ea2bebc6675"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "clap_mangen"
@@ -419,9 +419,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
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-version = "1.0.3"
+version = "1.0.4"
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-checksum = "5b63caa9aa9397e2d9480a9b13673856c78d8ac123288526c37d7839f2a86990"
+checksum = "b05b61dc5112cbb17e4b6cd61790d9845d13888356391624cbe7e41efeac1e75"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "compare"
@@ -992,9 +992,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
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-version = "1.1.1"
+version = "1.1.2"
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-checksum = "7ced92e76e966ca2fd84c8f7aa01a4aea65b0eb6648d72f7c8f3e2764a67fece"
+checksum = "4a3d7db9596fecd151c5f638c0ee5d5bd487b6e0ea232e5dc96d5250f6f94b1d"
 dependencies = [
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@@ -1156,7 +1156,7 @@ checksum = "335ff9f135e4384c8150d6f27c6daed433577f86b4750418338c01a1a2528592"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
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- "wasi 0.11.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1",
+ "wasi 0.11.1+wasi-snapshot-preview1",
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 [[package]]
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-version = "0.15.3"
+version = "0.15.4"
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-checksum = "84b26c544d002229e640969970a2e74021aadf6e2f96372b9c58eff97de08eb3"
+checksum = "5971ac85611da7067dbfcabef3c70ebb5606018acd9e2a3903a0da507521e0d5"
 dependencies = [
  "allocator-api2",
  "equivalent",
@@ -1251,6 +1251,140 @@ dependencies = [
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+[[package]]
+name = "icu_collator"
+version = "2.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "42ad4c6a556938dfd31f75a8c54141079e8821dc697ffb799cfe0f0fa11f2edc"
+dependencies = [
+ "displaydoc",
+ "icu_collator_data",
+ "icu_collections",
+ "icu_locale",
+ "icu_locale_core",
+ "icu_normalizer",
+ "icu_properties",
+ "icu_provider",
+ "smallvec",
+ "utf16_iter",
+ "utf8_iter",
+ "zerovec",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_collator_data"
+version = "2.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d880b8e680799eabd90c054e1b95526cd48db16c95269f3c89fb3117e1ac92c5"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_collections"
+version = "2.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "200072f5d0e3614556f94a9930d5dc3e0662a652823904c3a75dc3b0af7fee47"
+dependencies = [
+ "displaydoc",
+ "potential_utf",
+ "yoke",
+ "zerofrom",
+ "zerovec",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_locale"
+version = "2.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6ae5921528335e91da1b6c695dbf1ec37df5ac13faa3f91e5640be93aa2fbefd"
+dependencies = [
+ "displaydoc",
+ "icu_collections",
+ "icu_locale_core",
+ "icu_locale_data",
+ "icu_provider",
+ "potential_utf",
+ "tinystr",
+ "zerovec",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_locale_core"
+version = "2.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0cde2700ccaed3872079a65fb1a78f6c0a36c91570f28755dda67bc8f7d9f00a"
+dependencies = [
+ "displaydoc",
+ "litemap",
+ "tinystr",
+ "writeable",
+ "zerovec",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_locale_data"
+version = "2.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4fdef0c124749d06a743c69e938350816554eb63ac979166590e2b4ee4252765"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_normalizer"
+version = "2.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "436880e8e18df4d7bbc06d58432329d6458cc84531f7ac5f024e93deadb37979"
+dependencies = [
+ "displaydoc",
+ "icu_collections",
+ "icu_normalizer_data",
+ "icu_properties",
+ "icu_provider",
+ "smallvec",
+ "zerovec",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_normalizer_data"
+version = "2.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "00210d6893afc98edb752b664b8890f0ef174c8adbb8d0be9710fa66fbbf72d3"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_properties"
+version = "2.0.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "016c619c1eeb94efb86809b015c58f479963de65bdb6253345c1a1276f22e32b"
+dependencies = [
+ "displaydoc",
+ "icu_collections",
+ "icu_locale_core",
+ "icu_properties_data",
+ "icu_provider",
+ "potential_utf",
+ "zerotrie",
+ "zerovec",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_properties_data"
+version = "2.0.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "298459143998310acd25ffe6810ed544932242d3f07083eee1084d83a71bd632"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_provider"
+version = "2.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "03c80da27b5f4187909049ee2d72f276f0d9f99a42c306bd0131ecfe04d8e5af"
+dependencies = [
+ "displaydoc",
+ "icu_locale_core",
+ "stable_deref_trait",
+ "tinystr",
+ "writeable",
+ "yoke",
+ "zerofrom",
+ "zerotrie",
+ "zerovec",
+]
+
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 name = "indexmap"
 version = "2.9.0"
@@ -1258,7 +1392,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
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 dependencies = [
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- "hashbrown 0.15.3",
+ "hashbrown 0.15.4",
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 [[package]]
@@ -1467,9 +1601,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
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-version = "0.5.0"
+version = "0.5.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6489ca9bd760fe9642d7644e827b0c9add07df89857b0416ee15c1cc1a3b8c5a"
+checksum = "172a788537a2221661b480fee8dc5f96c580eb34fa88764d3205dc356c7e4221"
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+version = "0.8.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "241eaef5fd12c88705a01fc1066c48c4b36e0dd4377dcdc7ec3942cea7a69956"
+
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 dependencies = [
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+ "hashbrown 0.15.4",
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 [[package]]
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-version = "0.8.8"
+version = "0.8.9"
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+checksum = "1fa76a2c86f704bdb222d66965fb3d63269ce38518b83cb0575fca855ebb6316"
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  "libc",
  "log",
- "wasi 0.11.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1",
+ "wasi 0.11.1+wasi-snapshot-preview1",
  "windows-sys 0.59.0",
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@@ -1905,9 +2045,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
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-version = "1.11.0"
+version = "1.11.1"
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+checksum = "f84267b20a16ea918e43c6a88433c2d54fa145c92a811b5b047ccbe153674483"
 
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@@ -1918,6 +2058,16 @@ dependencies = [
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+[[package]]
+name = "potential_utf"
+version = "0.1.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e5a7c30837279ca13e7c867e9e40053bc68740f988cb07f7ca6df43cc734b585"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+ "zerovec",
+]
+
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@@ -1945,9 +2095,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
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-checksum = "9dee91521343f4c5c6a63edd65e54f31f5c92fe8978c40a4282f8372194c6a7d"
+checksum = "6837b9e10d61f45f987d50808f83d1ee3d206c66acf650c3e4ae2e1f6ddedf55"
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  "syn",
@@ -2073,9 +2223,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
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-version = "0.5.12"
+version = "0.5.13"
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-checksum = "928fca9cf2aa042393a8325b9ead81d2f0df4cb12e1e24cef072922ccd99c5af"
+checksum = "0d04b7d0ee6b4a0207a0a7adb104d23ecb0b47d6beae7152d0fa34b692b29fd6"
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@@ -2426,6 +2576,12 @@ dependencies = [
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+[[package]]
+name = "stable_deref_trait"
+version = "1.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a8f112729512f8e442d81f95a8a7ddf2b7c6b8a1a6f509a95864142b30cab2d3"
+
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 version = "0.11.1"
@@ -2434,15 +2590,26 @@ checksum = "7da8b5736845d9f2fcb837ea5d9e2628564b3b043a70948a3f0b778838c5fb4f"
 
 [[package]]
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-version = "2.0.101"
+version = "2.0.103"
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-checksum = "8ce2b7fc941b3a24138a0a7cf8e858bfc6a992e7978a068a5c760deb0ed43caf"
+checksum = "e4307e30089d6fd6aff212f2da3a1f9e32f3223b1f010fb09b7c95f90f3ca1e8"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
  "unicode-ident",
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+[[package]]
+name = "synstructure"
+version = "0.13.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "728a70f3dbaf5bab7f0c4b1ac8d7ae5ea60a4b5549c8a5914361c99147a709d2"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tap"
 version = "1.0.1"
@@ -2588,15 +2755,15 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "toml_datetime"
-version = "0.6.9"
+version = "0.6.11"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3da5db5a963e24bc68be8b17b6fa82814bb22ee8660f192bb182771d498f09a3"
+checksum = "22cddaf88f4fbc13c51aebbf5f8eceb5c7c5a9da2ac40a13519eb5b0a0e8f11c"
 
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-version = "0.22.26"
+version = "0.22.27"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "310068873db2c5b3e7659d2cc35d21855dbafa50d1ce336397c666e3cb08137e"
+checksum = "41fe8c660ae4257887cf66394862d21dbca4a6ddd26f04a3560410406a2f819a"
 dependencies = [
  "indexmap",
  "toml_datetime",
@@ -2684,6 +2851,18 @@ version = "0.0.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6d49784317cd0d1ee7ec5c716dd598ec5b4483ea832a2dced265471cc0f690ae"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "utf16_iter"
+version = "1.0.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c8232dd3cdaed5356e0f716d285e4b40b932ac434100fe9b7e0e8e935b9e6246"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "utf8_iter"
+version = "1.0.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b6c140620e7ffbb22c2dee59cafe6084a59b5ffc27a8859a5f0d494b5d52b6be"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "utf8parse"
 version = "0.2.2"
@@ -3776,6 +3955,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "fluent-syntax",
  "glob",
  "hex",
+ "icu_collator",
+ "icu_locale",
  "itertools 0.14.0",
  "libc",
  "md-5",
@@ -3878,9 +4059,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "wasi"
-version = "0.11.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1"
+version = "0.11.1+wasi-snapshot-preview1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9c8d87e72b64a3b4db28d11ce29237c246188f4f51057d65a7eab63b7987e423"
+checksum = "ccf3ec651a847eb01de73ccad15eb7d99f80485de043efb2f370cd654f4ea44b"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "wasi"
@@ -4046,9 +4227,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "windows-link"
-version = "0.1.1"
+version = "0.1.3"
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-checksum = "76840935b766e1b0a05c0066835fb9ec80071d4c09a16f6bd5f7e655e3c14c38"
+checksum = "5e6ad25900d524eaabdbbb96d20b4311e1e7ae1699af4fb28c17ae66c80d798a"
 
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diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
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--- a/Cargo.toml
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-version = "2.0.101"
+version = "2.0.103"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8ce2b7fc941b3a24138a0a7cf8e858bfc6a992e7978a068a5c760deb0ed43caf"
+checksum = "e4307e30089d6fd6aff212f2da3a1f9e32f3223b1f010fb09b7c95f90f3ca1e8"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
  "unicode-ident",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "synstructure"
+version = "0.13.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "728a70f3dbaf5bab7f0c4b1ac8d7ae5ea60a4b5549c8a5914361c99147a709d2"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tempfile"
 version = "3.20.0"
@@ -1208,11 +1369,11 @@ checksum = "343e926fc669bc8cde4fa3129ab681c63671bae288b1f1081ceee6d9d37904fc"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "type-map"
-version = "0.5.0"
+version = "0.5.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "deb68604048ff8fa93347f02441e4487594adc20bb8a084f9e564d2b827a0a9f"
+checksum = "cb30dbbd9036155e74adad6812e9898d03ec374946234fbcebd5dfc7b9187b90"
 dependencies = [
- "rustc-hash 1.1.0",
+ "rustc-hash",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1247,9 +1408,21 @@ checksum = "5a5f39404a5da50712a4c1eecf25e90dd62b613502b7e925fd4e4d19b5c96512"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-width"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1fc81956842c57dac11422a97c3b8195a1ff727f06e85c84ed2e8aa277c9a0fd"
+checksum = "4a1a07cc7db3810833284e8d372ccdc6da29741639ecc70c9ec107df0fa6154c"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "utf16_iter"
+version = "1.0.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c8232dd3cdaed5356e0f716d285e4b40b932ac434100fe9b7e0e8e935b9e6246"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "utf8_iter"
+version = "1.0.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b6c140620e7ffbb22c2dee59cafe6084a59b5ffc27a8859a5f0d494b5d52b6be"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "utf8parse"
@@ -1287,7 +1460,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "parse_datetime",
  "uucore",
- "windows-sys 0.60.1",
+ "windows-sys 0.60.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1423,6 +1596,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "fluent-syntax",
  "glob",
  "hex",
+ "icu_collator",
+ "icu_locale",
  "itertools",
  "libc",
  "md-5",
@@ -1440,7 +1615,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "uucore_procs",
  "wild",
  "winapi-util",
- "windows-sys 0.60.1",
+ "windows-sys 0.60.2",
  "z85",
 ]
 
@@ -1500,9 +1675,9 @@ checksum = "0b928f33d975fc6ad9f86c8f283853ad26bdd5b10b7f1542aa2fa15e2289105a"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "wasi"
-version = "0.11.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1"
+version = "0.11.1+wasi-snapshot-preview1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9c8d87e72b64a3b4db28d11ce29237c246188f4f51057d65a7eab63b7987e423"
+checksum = "ccf3ec651a847eb01de73ccad15eb7d99f80485de043efb2f370cd654f4ea44b"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "wasi"
@@ -1626,9 +1801,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "windows-link"
-version = "0.1.1"
+version = "0.1.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "76840935b766e1b0a05c0066835fb9ec80071d4c09a16f6bd5f7e655e3c14c38"
+checksum = "5e6ad25900d524eaabdbbb96d20b4311e1e7ae1699af4fb28c17ae66c80d798a"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "windows-result"
@@ -1659,11 +1834,11 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "windows-sys"
-version = "0.60.1"
+version = "0.60.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "b36e9ed89376c545e20cbf5a13c306b49106b21b9d1d4f9cb9a1cb6b1e9ee06a"
+checksum = "f2f500e4d28234f72040990ec9d39e3a6b950f9f22d3dba18416c35882612bcb"
 dependencies = [
- "windows-targets 0.53.1",
+ "windows-targets 0.53.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1684,9 +1859,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "windows-targets"
-version = "0.53.1"
+version = "0.53.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "30357ec391cde730f8fbfcdc29adc47518b06504528df977ab5af02ef23fdee9"
+checksum = "c66f69fcc9ce11da9966ddb31a40968cad001c5bedeb5c2b82ede4253ab48aef"
 dependencies = [
  "windows_aarch64_gnullvm 0.53.0",
  "windows_aarch64_msvc 0.53.0",
@@ -1803,6 +1978,36 @@ dependencies = [
  "bitflags",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "writeable"
+version = "0.6.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ea2f10b9bb0928dfb1b42b65e1f9e36f7f54dbdf08457afefb38afcdec4fa2bb"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "yoke"
+version = "0.8.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5f41bb01b8226ef4bfd589436a297c53d118f65921786300e427be8d487695cc"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+ "stable_deref_trait",
+ "yoke-derive",
+ "zerofrom",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "yoke-derive"
+version = "0.8.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "38da3c9736e16c5d3c8c597a9aaa5d1fa565d0532ae05e27c24aa62fb32c0ab6"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+ "synstructure",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "z85"
 version = "3.0.6"
@@ -1834,6 +2039,32 @@ name = "zerofrom"
 version = "0.1.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "50cc42e0333e05660c3587f3bf9d0478688e15d870fab3346451ce7f8c9fbea5"
+dependencies = [
+ "zerofrom-derive",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zerofrom-derive"
+version = "0.1.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d71e5d6e06ab090c67b5e44993ec16b72dcbaabc526db883a360057678b48502"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+ "synstructure",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zerotrie"
+version = "0.2.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "36f0bbd478583f79edad978b407914f61b2972f5af6fa089686016be8f9af595"
+dependencies = [
+ "displaydoc",
+ "yoke",
+ "zerofrom",
+]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "zerovec"
@@ -1841,5 +2072,18 @@ version = "0.11.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "4a05eb080e015ba39cc9e23bbe5e7fb04d5fb040350f99f34e338d5fdd294428"
 dependencies = [
+ "yoke",
  "zerofrom",
+ "zerovec-derive",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zerovec-derive"
+version = "0.11.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5b96237efa0c878c64bd89c436f661be4e46b2f3eff1ebb976f7ef2321d2f58f"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
 ]
diff --git a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
index 7101cca70..5dc64b2b8 100644
--- a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ dns-lookup = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 dunce = { version = "1.0.4", optional = true }
 wild = "2.2.1"
 glob = { workspace = true, optional = true }
+icu_collator = { workspace = true, optional = true, features = [
+  "compiled_data",
+] }
+icu_locale = { workspace = true, optional = true, features = ["compiled_data"] }
 itertools = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 time = { workspace = true, optional = true, features = [
   "formatting",
@@ -106,6 +110,7 @@ format = [
   "num-traits",
   "quoting-style",
 ]
+i18n = ["icu_collator", "icu_locale"]
 mode = ["libc"]
 perms = ["entries", "libc", "walkdir"]
 buf-copy = []
@@ -113,7 +118,7 @@ parser = ["extendedbigdecimal", "glob", "num-traits"]
 pipes = []
 process = ["libc"]
 proc-info = ["tty", "walkdir"]
-quoting-style = []
+quoting-style = ["i18n"]
 ranges = []
 ringbuffer = []
 selinux = ["dep:selinux"]
diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features.rs
index 44db53071..fcc97b0f0 100644
--- a/src/uucore/src/lib/features.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/src/lib/features.rs
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ pub mod format;
 pub mod fs;
 #[cfg(feature = "fsext")]
 pub mod fsext;
+#[cfg(feature = "i18n")]
+pub mod i18n;
 #[cfg(feature = "lines")]
 pub mod lines;
 #[cfg(feature = "parser")]
diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/i18n/mod.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/i18n/mod.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5a7cf8ea3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/i18n/mod.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+use std::sync::OnceLock;
+
+use icu_locale::{Locale, locale};
+
+/// The encoding specified by the locale, if specified
+/// Currently only supports ASCII and UTF-8 for the sake of simplicity.
+#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Clone, Copy)]
+pub enum UEncoding {
+    Ascii,
+    Utf8,
+}
+
+const DEFAULT_LOCALE: Locale = locale!("en-US-posix");
+
+/// Deduce the locale from the current environment
+fn get_collating_locale() -> &'static (Locale, UEncoding) {
+    static COLLATING_LOCALE: OnceLock<(Locale, UEncoding)> = OnceLock::new();
+
+    COLLATING_LOCALE.get_or_init(|| {
+        // Look at 3 environment variables in the following order
+        //
+        // 1. LC_ALL
+        // 2. LC_COLLATE
+        // 3. LANG
+        //
+        // Or fallback on Posix locale, with ASCII encoding.
+
+        let locale_var = std::env::var("LC_ALL")
+            .or_else(|_| std::env::var("LC_COLLATE"))
+            .or_else(|_| std::env::var("LANG"));
+
+        if let Ok(locale_var_str) = locale_var {
+            let mut split = locale_var_str.split(&['.', '@']);
+
+            if let Some(simple) = split.next() {
+                let bcp47 = simple.replace("_", "-");
+                let locale = Locale::try_from_str(&bcp47).unwrap_or(DEFAULT_LOCALE);
+
+                // If locale parsing failed, parse the encoding part of the
+                // locale. Treat the special case of the given locale being "C"
+                // which becomes the default locale.
+                let encoding = if (locale != DEFAULT_LOCALE || bcp47 == "C")
+                    && split.next() == Some("UTF-8")
+                {
+                    UEncoding::Utf8
+                } else {
+                    UEncoding::Ascii
+                };
+                return (locale, encoding);
+            } else {
+                return (DEFAULT_LOCALE, UEncoding::Ascii);
+            };
+        }
+        // Default POSIX locale representing LC_ALL=C
+        (DEFAULT_LOCALE, UEncoding::Ascii)
+    })
+}
+
+/// Return the encoding deduced from the locale environment variable.
+pub fn get_locale_encoding() -> UEncoding {
+    get_collating_locale().1
+}
diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/lib.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/lib.rs
index 469c52444..6a137b787 100644
--- a/src/uucore/src/lib/lib.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/src/lib/lib.rs
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ pub use crate::features::fast_inc;
 pub use crate::features::format;
 #[cfg(feature = "fs")]
 pub use crate::features::fs;
+#[cfg(feature = "i18n")]
+pub use crate::features::i18n;
 #[cfg(feature = "lines")]
 pub use crate::features::lines;
 #[cfg(feature = "parser")]