Bug#603914: Please drop non-UTF8 locales

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Package: locales
Version: 2.11.2-7
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I think wheezy would be a good time to finally ditch non-UTF8 locales. 
IIRC, we made the switch to UTF8 by default in etch (and we were already 
way too late in doing that), and supporting non-UTF8 stuff becomes 
harder and harder, at least for desktop software.

I think we should make it clear that legacy locales are not supported 
anymore. Maybe by dropping them entirely, maybe by just not proposing 
them by default.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.36     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6 [glibc-2.11-1]          2.11.2-7   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

locales recommends no packages.

locales suggests no packages.

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