Re: locale changes in next version of debiandoc-sgml

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 08:44:36PM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The next version of debiandoc-sgml (to be uploaded this weekend; I'm in the
> final testing stages) will have some changes in the locale area:
> 
>  * The tools now really don't look at the environment variables anymore for
>    locale settings.  There were a couple of places I overlooked previously.

OK.  I do "export LC_ALL=C" anyway.

So you mean debiandoc-sgml now only use locales provided by the command 
argument lead by "-l".  Just to be sure :-)

>  * Proper support for Euro-based locales.  I've added the Euro variant of
>    all applicable locales, including correct character sets and such.  For
>    some locales this means the non-Euro variant is changed back to what it
>    is supposed to be.  E.g. the fr_FR.ISO8859-1 locale had the Euro character
>    set, but now it has the non-Euro character sert.

Although I use full names, I wonder what happens if alias/short-version
of locale names are used.  "fr", "fr_FR", ...

Lastly, thanks for updating this package.

Osamu