Re: Bug#154556: or just adapt current debconf question
On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 10:20:24PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> 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.
>
Oh OK. Is it possible to summarise what the issues are for UTF-8 to be
considered "supported"? I mean, what's the difference between en_AU.UTF-8
and en_GB.UTF-8 (or en_US.UTF-8), as far as the UTF-8 charset is concerned?
Wouldn't it simply require a conversion from the default ISO-8859-1 charset
to UTF-8, which will work just as well for en_AU as it does for en_GB or
en_US?
Drew
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