Bug#174190: locales: locale selection should also include language names

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Tue, 24 Dec 2002 13:54:59 +0100,
Morten Brix Pedersen wrote:
> The idea with having the user select his/her own locale is great. But
> for newcomers to Linux, the locale names aren't really understandable.
> 
> So it would be excellent if the language name of the locale could be
> spelled out next to the locale name when configuring the locales
> package.
> 
> E.g.:
> 
> Danish (da_DK ISO-8859-1)
> Spanish (es_ES ISO-8859-1)
> British English (en_GB ISO-8859-1)
> American English (en_US ISO-8859-1)

Well, it's not slightly appropriate, because locale is 
consists of at least 4 sections like:

	language_region.charset@extension

So, example name framework leads sometimes confusion, and it needs
some maintainance cost.

> That's a big jump for user friendlyness when installing a new Debian
> system, imho.

That's right.

I propose we use it for "title" entry in localedata/locales/* files.
For example,

		<general name>			<locale>	<charset>
	Danish locale for Denmark		da_DK		ISO-8859-1
	Spanish locale for Spain		es_ES		ISO-8859-1
	English locale for Britain		en_GB		ISO-8859-1
	German locale for Germany with Euro	de_DE@euro	ISO-8859-15
	Arabic language locale for Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	ar_LY ISO-8859-6
	Japanese language locale for Japan	ja_JP.EUC-JP	EUC-JP
	Japanese language locale for Japan	ja_JP.UTF-8	UTF-8

It's easy to generate these entries automatically, and it's more
understandable for users.  Is this OK?

Regards,
-- gotom