Bug#138468: locale warnings while extracting base

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Matt Kraai <kraai@debian.org> cum veritate scripsit:

> OK, I see that code now.  Do we need to set LC_CTYPE, or could
> we use a new variable (e.g., USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER) instead?  I'm
> not exactly sure what the second sentence means: where else is
> LC_CTYPE being inspected?

We do.

LC_CTYPE is inspected in setlocale(),
and used in multibyte-to-wide-char convertion routines in 
newt/slang.


Please don't touch that code unless you really know what it means.


Calling the locale itself c@utf-8 seems like a big mistake.
People are confused. It should have been something like 
bootfloppies.UTF-8, as it was suggested when the locale was first
proposed somewhere.


thanks,
	junichi


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