Re: And now for something completely different... etch!
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Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> writes:
> On Tuesday 07 June 2005 23.32, Roger Leigh wrote:
>> Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl> writes:
>> > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 23:02, Roger Leigh wrote:
>> >> Existing installs are already configured with debconf. Their
>> >> /etc/locale.gen will not be touched.
>> >>
>> >> If you do dpkg-reconfigure locales, then users could have the locale
>> >> switch to UTF-8 if they so choose.
>> >
>> > AFAIK locales are automatically regenerated when the locales package is
>> > upgraded, so this _would_ effect every existing install directly on
>> > upgrade to the new release.
>>
>> locale-gen is run, but /etc/locale.gen is not necessarily altered. If
>> you don't change it, it will regenerate the same locales you already
>> have.
>
> But 'the same locale I already have' would probably mean 'the locale with
> the name of the locale I previously had' which has now suddenly changed its
> behaviour.
This would be safe, since the locale codeset is part of the name.
When the current locale selections are merged with i18n/SUPPORTED, it
wouldn't change anything behind your back. But this is probably the
wrong approach, as others have said.
I've since made a patch, and filed this as bug #312927. I'd
appreciate any comments. It's a trivial and (I hope!)
non-controversial change. It certainly won't affect the choices of or
the behaviour of the available locales; it rather just recommends that
UTF-8 locales be used unless the user has a good reason not to.
Regards,
Roger
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