Re: non-ASCII characters in /etc/locales.alias ?
Hi,
At 16 Jan 2002 13:48:46 +0000,
Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> I've been looking at /etc/locales.alias and the possibility of
> auto-generating it from locale-gen; and noticed that it has non-ASCII
> characters in it: in particular in
>
> bokmål no_NO.ISO-8859-1
> français fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
>
> I think using non-ASCII characters in /etc/locales.alias is dodgy; it
> would break in non- ISO-8859-1 environments. Should this be supported?
> Should /etc/locales.alias have a tag describing its encoding?
> (e.g. an emacs-type tag)
> Does anyone use these aliases?
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locales/locales.alias says these are defined on
> HPUX; are they in real use?
>
> Opinions?
How do you think about the discussion from the following mail?
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-glibc/2002-January/004481.html
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