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

[Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats@iris.ne.jp>]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:02:19 -0500,
Glenn Maynard <g_deb@zewt.org> wrote:

> > > (2) 'locale -a' displays only usable aliases; none that can't be
> > > displayed in the current locale or don't have correct locales generated.
> 
> It's impossible to tell if it can be displayed in the current locale.
> Like Tomohiro said earlier, the ISO-8859-1 sequences are valid in other
> charsets; they'll just display as junk.  Perhaps don't display *any*
> aliases with 8-bit characters?

And also, there is a possibility that ISO-8859-1 bytes are
invalid in other encodings.

Maybe an option (`ISO-8859-1' or `only ASCII') is needed if
ISO-8859-1 is permitted in locale.alias.

-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita