UTF-8 locales

[NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@chroot.org>]

Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
 > However, the current woody system (with locale 2.1.97-1) has only
 > one UTF-8 locale of ko_KR.utf8.  UTF-8 locales are needed for this
 > model to work well.  Why only it?

Because of "localedef".  Older version doesn't support multibyte character
sets.   From the "NEWS" of GNU C library 2.2:

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* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
  sets.  Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652.  Rewrite strcoll,
  strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions.  Make isw*() functions work.
  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

  Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
  structures for the wide character tables.
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