Bug#209402: locales: Setting LC_CTYPE to ISO-8859-1 does not work

To: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Cc: 209402@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#209402: locales: Setting LC_CTYPE to ISO-8859-1 does not work
From: Daniel Bonniot <Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 23:07:38 +0200
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Try 'LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1' instead. You need the language and
country parts there.

That works. However I wonder: why do I need to specifiy a language andcountry? ISO-8859-1 is ISO-8859-1, independently of any specificcountry, after all.


BTW, is this specified somewhere? POSIX?

Daniel

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