(I know, this was sent a long time ago, I just reviewed it) On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 10:24:13PM +0300, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > So, should I remove the @euro extension from the locales? Some users might already have them, it's best to consider them but also add the sans '@euro' extension there. Since some users might have only 'XX' as the locale instead of 'XX@euro'. One of the issues I see with localization-config, however, is that it will not do anything with locales not defined when it might be quite useful to have a generic definition for some locales. Consider es_XX or en_XX. In most cases the database will contain the _same_ entries for es_ES, es_PE, es_DO, es_GT, es_PA, es_HN... but if someone forgets to add these, or the user just sets his locale as 'es', localization-config will not be able to cope with that and will not configure the package properly. Localization-config should cope with generic 'LANG_VARIANT@CHARSET' definitions in a more generic way: 1.- Make it possible to have a 'LANG' generic definition (to be used by all LANG_VARIANTs if not defined) 2.- Make it possible to have a 'LANG_VARIANT' definition (superceedes 1) 3.- As 2 but with 'LANG_VARIANT@CHARSET' Currently for all spanish definitions I would have to add database entries for es, es_ES, es_PE, es_PA, es_HN... even if the value that is going to be used is exactly the same. That is not good since: a) variants might be forgotten (es_SV?) b) might get inconsistent in the long run (only language is updated but not its variants) > Forgive my persistense, but I can't really understand the use of a > @euro or even a new encoding, if noone is using it. > Hm, perhaps there should be a transition plan to move everything to > UTF-8 :-) Probably the best in the long term is to have all the user's charsets as UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1 (or similar ones). That won't be possible until all applications fully support UTF-8 and it also means that the /etc/locale.alias file needs to be changed (for most european languages it will use ISO-8859-1 as the charset) Regards Javier
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