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Bug#271549: locales: Please add the mg_MG locale for Malagasy in Madagascar



> > This locale is needed for the upcoming Malagasy translation of Debian
> > Installer, planned to be achieved by Jaonary Rabarisoa <jaonary@ifrance.com>.
> 
> Do you have still plan to support mg_MG in debian-installer?  


No, this is post-sarge. So, you can delay this locale for post-sarge.

> > I have checked this locale by installing it manually on my system and
> > generating it. The generation is OK...and so is the display of localised
> > commands using its contents.
> > 
> > The associated charsets, in SUPPORTED, may be ISO-8859-15 and UTF-8.
> 
> Cool; however is there at least one user to use this locale at Madagascar?

Well, given that currently no Malagasy translation exists, I bet that
no. This is a kind of chicken-and-egg problem.....a locale is needed
for localisation to be useful....and thus someone use the locale...





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