-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:28:37PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Eh? You can't change that around just like that, it will break in the >> > cases where people ssh in from machines with latin1 locales for >> > instance (and use the PassEnv feature of newer SSHs). >> >> IMHO if you want features like that to work, you should be fully >> qualifying your locale. > > en_GB.ISO-8859-1 doesn't exist unless you go to the effort of defining > it yourself - it's not in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED. (Yes, in this case > there happens to be an ISO-8859-15 equivalent, but that's not the case > everywhere.) > > I'm fairly sure I remember glibc upstream vowing never to change the > meaning of existing locales. Certainly this post from a locale hacker > well-known in these parts comes to mind: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2004/10/msg00075.html I see. If it needs to be kept that way for backwards-compatibility, that's fair enough. It's interesting that they chose "eo_EO UTF-8" and "eo_EO.ISO-8859-3 ISO-9959-3" as the locale names, though! (If it's a new locale, I guess there are no problems with that.) > /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED is a little more than "the defaults", I think. > It's at least standard across systems that use glibc (in that you may > get additional entries, but you won't get different entries). This makes > up sufficiently many systems to make me pay attention. I took the list to mean the set of locale/codeset combinations supported by the C library locale data, and assumed it was my choice to name them as I saw fit. I do worry that in 5 years time we will hate the fact that we *must* qualify our locale with ".UTF-8" despite the fact it is the default. I already find it really annoying, hence the reason I renamed them. That said, I'd still like UTF-8 to become the default, whatever the locale naming scheme we have to use. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFCp1SYVcFcaSW/uEgRAuFEAJ0YVLctuf0aCNjLR0GncDgtCyjJJwCg8C8b +UXXHesnbtDmdHHJ8qM+Lcc= =rrjD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
