If emacs cannot handle .utf8 locales, it's a bug in emacs. The new standard is to use .utf8 instead of .UTF-8. Emacs should be migrated to use the new standard. This change has occured in the langpack-locales package, which includes the locale data from upstream glibc.
If emacs cannot handle .utf8 locales, it's a bug in emacs. The new standard is to use .utf8 instead of .UTF-8. Emacs should be migrated to use the new standard. This change has occured in the langpack-locales package, which includes the locale data from upstream glibc.