Bug#248951: "en" is not a valid locale, but is added to locale.gen
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:16:34PM +0300, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote:
> >Don't think so, at least it shouldn't be the first fallback. I think the
> >best would be to check for the default language locale - if ru_DE is not
> >available, take whichever ru_* is the default - i.e. ru_RU.
> There is other problem for Russian: ru_RU is ISO-8859-5 locale, I do not
> think it is that most Russians expect. So it shold be ru_RU.KOI8-R. If
> not, one should change charset in console configuration (but other
> locale - ru_UA - have KOI8-U charset).
>
/usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED says:
...
ru_RU.KOI8-R KOI8-R
ru_RU.UTF-8 UTF-8
ru_RU ISO-8859-5
...
So the ISO-locale is available, but has the lowest priority, as it is
barely used in russian. I hope that other languages have their preferred
encodings at the top of the list.
Ukraine should not be a problem - people living there and wishing russian
as their interface language will just choose Russian/Ukraine and get the
default ru_UA. Others should get ru_RU. Ukrainian language itself will get
uk_UA, so no problem here.
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Nikolai Prokoschenko
nikolai@prokoschenko.de / Jabber: pronik@jabber.org
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