Re: localising base-config - end game

[Phil Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 13:35, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
> [Philip Blundell]
> > Given a locale string in german.src of "de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro", you
> > ideally want to be writing "de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15" into
> > /etc/locale.gen and setting LANG to "de_DE@euro".
> 
> There is no need to rewrite the LANG content.
> "de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro" is a synonym for "de_DE@euro" if the German
> locale was generated using the requested ISO-8859-15.

My feeling was that, since they are synonymous, we might as well use the
shorter version in $LANG.  There is no point having a monster string
with an explicit character set if it isn't needed.

p.