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Re: Default locale for en_GB



Quoting Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org):

> > I suggest raising the topic now in UK users groups. Anyway, it is
> > quite likely that some strong movement towards UTF-8 defaults will
> > happen in etch. Other distros have been blamed for doing this a bit
> > too early but, well, they have now made the switch and this is a Good
> > Thing.
> 
> I think we should leave it the way it is for sarge, and switch to UTF-8
> across the board for etch.

That was the point. I think that no-one seriously thinks about
changing the default locale for whatever language in sarge *now*
unless wanting to try new torture methods which could then come in
Joey's mind...:-)

But, well, I suspect that a topic such as the default locale has to be
discussed early enough for the transition to be as smooth as possible.




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