ISO-8859-16

[Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <tgakic@sg10.chem.tue.nl>]

Few days ago ISO-8859-16 was accepted, this standard
can be ordered from www.iso.ch.

I have couple of fonts available with this encoding.

This charset is the only one where Romanians can find their
letters from alphabet.

I was using for two years now this line in my /etc/locale.gen:

ro_RO ISO-8859-16

and this setings from my locales:

e164179:~> locale
LANG=ro_RO
LC_CTYPE=ro_RO
LC_NUMERIC=ro_RO
LC_TIME=ro_RO
LC_COLLATE=ro_RO
LC_MONETARY=ro_RO
LC_MESSAGES=en_US
LC_PAPER="ro_RO"
LC_NAME="ro_RO"
LC_ADDRESS="ro_RO"
LC_TELEPHONE="ro_RO"
LC_MEASUREMENT="ro_RO"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="ro_RO"
LC_ALL=

locale charmap give this:

e164179:~> locale charmap
ISO-8859-16

My question is if you consider to change the default encoding
for Romanian language.

If you need to know more about Romanian language and alphabet
I am glad to explain you. 


Ionel Ciobica