Bug#266226: marked as done (locales: @euro support should again be supported for _all_ euro countries)
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From: Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>
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Subject: locales: @euro support should again be supported for _all_ euro countries
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 05:55:27 +0200
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NOTE: I strongly feel this should be fixed before RC2 is released.
HISTORY
=======
With the introduction of the new languagechooser, support for @euro locales
was lost for a lot of countries which had that support before.
This was noted at the time [1], but ignored because the relevance was unclear.
Now it looks as if proper @euro support _should_ be present [2].
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/06/msg01818.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/08/msg01145.html
PROBLEM
=======
Currently only a few locales have proper @euro support. For these it is set in
the 3rd field in languagelist in languagechooser, but this solution does not
work for all relevant language/country combinations.
In languagelist only primary language/country combinations (e.g. French -
fr_FR@euro, Spanish - es_ES@euro, Catalan - ca_ES@euro) are present, but not
secondary combinations (e.g. French in Belgium - fr_BE, German in Austria -
ge_AT).
Currently not even all of the primary combinations have @euro support in
languagelist (e.g. Dutch - nl_NL, Danish - da_DK).
The current code in the postinst for countrychooser that keeps a suffix if any
is present in the 3rd field of languagelist could provide a solution for some
situations, but not for all [a] and even leads to undesired results in other
situations [b].
[a] English (en_US) does not have a @euro suffix, but en_IR needs one
[b] AFAICT French in Canada would currently 'inherrit' a @euro suffix
from fr_FR@euro, but because fr_CA@euro is unsupported the locale
will fall back to fr_FR@euro even though a fr_CA locale does exist
SOLUTION
========
I think the solution would be to include code (probably in postinst for
countrychooser).
This script should roughly check whether the previously generated locale
concerns an euro country, adds the @euro suffix and checks to see if the new
locale is supported. There would have to be some exceptions e.g. for
combinations that prefer UTF8 encoding.
Another (maybe the best in the long run) solution could be remove suffixes
from the languagelist altogether and to have a table in countrychooser of
preferred locales for any xx_YY combinations where a suffix (or another
locale than can be automatically generated from the selected language and
country) is wanted.
The relevant countrycodes for euro are: AT BE DE FI FR GR IR IT LU NL PT SP.
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From: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
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Subject: Euro countries now have a @euro locale
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THis feature was added in 1.29 release of languagechooser.
Unfortunately, the relevant Closes line was forgotten in the
changelog. THe bug may now be closed.
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