On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 21:08, David B Harris wrote: > I hope this doesn't bother anybody, but I was curious as to why > en_IN.UTF8 was required to build boot-floppies? I don't mind at all, but > somebody has been bugging me about it. Grr. > > Is it just so that there's a UTF8 locale generated, or somesuch? The font reduction process needs to run under a UTF-8 locale. It doesn't much matter which one; en_IN.UTF-8 was just a random choice. p.