Bug#209402: locales: Setting LC_CTYPE to ISO-8859-1 does not work
GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp> writes:
[Yes, the information in
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-12.html
is outdated and should be fixed]
> In first, I don't think only setting "ISO-8859-1" is valid.
Once upon a time, when NLS implementations weren't there, some
programs used LC_CTYPE=iso-8859-1 to switch to an 8bit encoding as a
workaround. Today it shouldn't be needed at all.
Iff someone needs LC_CTYPE for a (broken as of now - we have NLS now)
program, s/he can generate a locale like en_US.ISO-8859-1 with the
name "ISO-8859-1" via localedef and use that. Since it is only a
workaround and can easily be done locally (I did that once), I agree
with you that glibc shouldn't change.
Jochen
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