Bug#208238: locales: wrong charset for et_EE

[Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>]

Package: locales
Version: 2.3.2-4
Severity: normal


For Estonian, ISO 8859-15 is the correct character set. This is set as official
national standard several years ago and is used more and more. ISO 8859-1 is
not sufficient because it lacks s-caron and z-caron. Unlike for some other
languages, there is no point of having et_EE at 8859-1 and et_EE@euro at
8859-15 since it's not the euro symbol that we use 8859-15 for, it's because of
s-caron and z-caron that 8859-1 does not offer.

glibc offers 8859-1 as the default for Estonian. This should be fixed to offer
8859-15 for Debian to work out-of-the-box in Estonian language environment.

The changes I am using on all my unstable's for many months without problems:

1. Change locale from et_EE.ISO-8859-1 to et_EE.ISO-8859­15 in "estonian" and
"eesti" lines of /etc/locale.alias.

2. In /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED, change "et_EE ISO-8859-1" to
"et_EE ISO-8859-15".

3. (most important) Change "et_EE ISO-8859-1" to "et_EE ISO-8859-15" in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.config so that locales configuration offers the
right locale for Estonian.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux roos 2.4.18 #2 N nov 28 11:30:27 EET 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=et_EE, LC_CTYPE=et_EE

Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.3.12     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6 [glibc-2.3.2-4]         2.3.2-4    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- debconf information:
* locales/default_environment_locale: et_EE
* locales/locales_to_be_generated: et_EE ISO-8859-15, et_EE.UTF-8 UTF-8