Re: non-ASCII characters in /etc/locales.alias ?

[Glenn Maynard <g_deb@zewt.org>]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:08:13PM -0600, David Starner wrote:
> > Having aliases is not a bad idea.  Now I am not talking about this.
> > Imagine how I can use LANG=fanc?is.  I have to set LANG=*.ISO-8859-1
> > (or some other locales) in prior to writing LANG=fanc?ais.
> 
> Sure, but it can be saved in a file (e.g. .bashrc) that loads the
> locales for you.

But the charset in LANG has to be ASCII; it can't contain ISO-8859-1.
LANG, etc, need to be locale-invariant; they obviously can't be in the current
locale, and nobody is likely to want text in their environment in
another locale (which would happen if you required LANG to be
locale-invariant in ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8.)

-- 
Glenn Maynard