On 04/12/2010 00:15, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 02:07:37PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>> Package: locales
>> Version: 2.11.2-7
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think wheezy would be a good time to finally ditch non-UTF8 locales.
>> IIRC, we made the switch to UTF8 by default in etch (and we were already
>> way too late in doing that), and supporting non-UTF8 stuff becomes
>> harder and harder, at least for desktop software.
>>
>> I think we should make it clear that legacy locales are not supported
>> anymore. Maybe by dropping them entirely, maybe by just not proposing
>> them by default.
Does dropping them really give huge benefits ?
> About the technical part, I would go to not proposing them by default in
> order to not break existing installations.
I fully agree to not propose them by default on new installation. However,
there are still *lots* of text documents written in legacy encodings.
For example, I've lots of old text data in latin1. Some of them are on
non-rewritable media. Being able to see them with
"LC_CTYPE=fr_FR less toto.txt" is very convenient.
There are also lots of old web pages written in latin1 that are still
used (old exercises, ...) Not being able to see them properly on a
Debian system would be a pain.
And I work with a editor that still write its LaTeX document in latin1
(in order to not break older document and being able to merge old and
new ones).
So, I really think it is not time to totally drop non-UTF8
locales yet. Discouraging their uses is a good thing however.
Regards,
Vincent
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