Bug#639166: expose iso14651/i18n as separate locale
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 09:08:54PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.13-16
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Would it be possible to expose the iso14651_t1 LC_COLLATE locale
> definition from the source tree as a separate locale for the user? It
> would sometimes be quite useful in applications to be able to say
> explicitly, give me a default, language-neutral sort ordering that is
> multi-language aware. And then for LC_CTYPE, it looks like the i18n
> file would be a good fit. (I don't really need any of the other
> categories for this purpose.)
>
> So, would this be possible with reasonable effort? Does it need
> significant upstream changes? Or is it perhaps already available via
> localedef somehow?
>
Why doesn't the C.UTF-8 locale doesn't fit here? Do we really need a new
locale for that?
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