Package: locales Version: 2.3.2-4 Severity: normal
For Estonian, ISO 8859-15 is the correct character set. This is set as official national standard several years ago and is used more and more. ISO 8859-1 is not sufficient because it lacks s-caron and z-caron. Unlike for some other languages, there is no point of having et_EE at 8859-1 and [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 8859-15 since it's not the euro symbol that we use 8859-15 for, it's because of s-caron and z-caron that 8859-1 does not offer. glibc offers 8859-1 as the default for Estonian. This should be fixed to offer 8859-15 for Debian to work out-of-the-box in Estonian language environment. The changes I am using on all my unstable's for many months without problems: 1. Change locale from et_EE.ISO-8859-1 to et_EE.ISO-8859�15 in "estonian" and "eesti" lines of /etc/locale.alias. 2. In /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED, change "et_EE ISO-8859-1" to "et_EE ISO-8859-15". 3. (most important) Change "et_EE ISO-8859-1" to "et_EE ISO-8859-15" in /var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.config so that locales configuration offers the right locale for Estonian. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux roos 2.4.18 #2 N nov 28 11:30:27 EET 2002 i586 Locale: LANG=et_EE, LC_CTYPE=et_EE Versions of packages locales depends on: ii debconf 1.3.12 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 [glibc-2.3.2-4] 2.3.2-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- debconf information: * locales/default_environment_locale: et_EE * locales/locales_to_be_generated: et_EE ISO-8859-15, et_EE.UTF-8 UTF-8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
