On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 03:23:09PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 10:44:12PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Which raise the question: does the corresponding user group moved to UTF-8 ? > > Judging from <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_encoding>, > > neither Chinese nor Japanese users have overwhelmingly moved to UTF-8, > > so it would be problematic to stop supporting BIG5, GB18030 and EUC-JP. > > We actually do have data about locale usage in Debian. > I've copied .report files from bugs-mirror, and > grep -arm1 ^Locale: */*/*.report > shows that: > * most recent use of BIG5 is #925894 from March 2019 > * there's no use of any GB locale (other than en_GB :p) past #609517 (2011) > * for EUC there's #1001207 (2021) #953616 #939588 #939494 #893625
I do not think bug submitters expect the Locale field to be used for locale usage statistics, so it does not seem fair to use it for that purpose. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
