Re: Bug#261000: console-tools: de_DE.UTF-8@euro does not get caught as UTF-8
At Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:13:50 +0200,
Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:55:59PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > At Tue, 27 Jul 2004 01:13:14 +0200,
> > Denis Barbier wrote:
> [...]
> > > I had a closer look, and those .UTF-8@euro locales are added by
> > > debian/patches/locales-supported.dpatch, which means that they are
> > > Debian specific. They were introduced in 2.3.1-12:
> > > - debian/patches/locales-supported.dpatch: This dpatch addes many
> > > locales especially for UTF-8 and ISO-8859-15, to display debconf
> > > locale menu using SUPPORTED.orig.
> > > (Closes: #135334, #154556, #177472, #99623, #130517)
> > >
> > > They can either be dropped from SUPPORTED (maybe not a good idea because
> > > of the near release), or filtered by locale-gen.
> >
> > I agree with dropping those locales from SUPPORTED.
>
> Can this be done for sarge, please? Otherwise many European users will
> start using these locales.
You said in the previous mail:
> > Moreover, it's good idea to describe: how to handle the basic
> > environment variable (for example LANG) in debian.
> >
> > Denis, could you work this kind of issue if you have spare time?
>
> I will try to.
Regards,
-- gotom
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