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Re: UTF-8@euro locales not supported by gnome-session?



On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 19:16 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> It's not the same:
> fi_FI.UTF-8 is just an UTF-8 rewrite of the old fi_FI.ISO-8859-1 rules.
> Meanwhile fi_FI.UTF-8@euro is a rewrite of fi_FI.ISO-8859-15 rules. 
> 
> They each make different asusmptions about what is the correct currency for the
> country and about which characters are admissible in the Finnish alphabet.
thats just insane. 
another big stone in the way of making things just work. 
debian should get UTF-8 as default and remove the old ISO cruft soon.

q



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