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

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

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:54:10 -0500,
Glenn Maynard <g_deb@zewt.org> wrote:

> > And also, there is a possibility that ISO-8859-1 bytes are
> > invalid in other encodings.
> 
> That was the original point: to not display locale aliases that can't be
> displayed in the current locale.  This simply can't be done reliably.

Sorry, I mistook.  The above is a meaningless sentence.

> > Maybe an option (`ISO-8859-1' or `only ASCII') is needed if
> > ISO-8859-1 is permitted in locale.alias.
> 
> I'm not quite sure what you're suggesting.  I'd recommend the "locale -a"
> output pretend that those compatibility aliases don't exist.  Don't
> legitimize it.

I heartily agree your suggestion.

But I'm afraid that ISO-8859-1 people want to get *all* locales.

-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita