Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthibault@debian.org): > Cyril Brulebois, le Thu 02 May 2013 11:52:55 +0200, a écrit : > > Didier Depri <didier.depri@gmail.com> (02/05/2013): > > > i'm sure you get busy but i would like to know why Côte d'Ivoire is > > > not in the list of countries when we are installing Debian. Because there is no fr_CI locale. > > > > If you picked “French” as a language, you just have to select “Autre” > > instead of the default “Europe”, then “Afrique”, and there you go. > > Mmm, I wonder why French-national-language countries other than > BE/CA/LU/CH are not listed there. Because there is no locale for them. And, yes, David, there is no fr_MQ either. > > E.g. for English we have some african countries such as Botswana, > Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Spanish has a lot of countries, > etc. Because there are locales for them.:) In short, plenty of locales are certainly badly needed for countries that have French as official language. One just has to write them...:-) It basically needs a text editor, some knowledge of the said sountry, and eventually the utf2uxx et uxx2utf scripts written long time ago by Denis Barbier and that are......basically lying on my hard disk for 10 years.
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