Re: Bug#154556: or just adapt current debconf question
On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 12:14:05PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Thinking about it a little further, I noticed the current debconf question
> for selecting locale is already dynamic, adding the contents of
> /etc/locale.gen to those from /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED. In this case,
> rather than having a separate UTF-8 question as I suggested above, it would
> be better to dynamically generate .UTF-8 entries in this current question
> based on the locales already present. The idea is to keep
> /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED from getting overcrowded with locale variants.
>
> I am assuming here that UTF-8 is in fact a valid charset for all locales.
You cannot assume that. Upstream creates the SUPPORTED list based on
locales it knows to work.
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