Bug#1026231: debian-policy: document droppage of support for legacy locales
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,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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