You misread what he wrote. He knows what POSIX is in absolute, the question was ...

masklinn on Dec 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Thoughts on Python 3

You misread what he wrote. He knows what POSIX is in absolute, the question was what "POSIX" is as a locale. It's in the previous sentence:

> I had the situation that when I logged into my remote server the locale was set to the string “POSIX”.

ricardobeat on Dec 7, 2011 [–]

Ugh. That's what I get for skimming. Sorry.