Re: (forw) Re: @euro support with new languagechooser (was: dropping tc1)

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

Quoting Denis Barbier (barbier@linuxfr.org):

> But generated locales differ because different encodings are passed to
> localedef:
>   $ LANG=fr_FR locale charmap
>   ISO-8859-1
>   $ LANG=fr_FR@euro locale charmap
>   ISO-8859-15
> 
> Steve mentions in another message that switching fr_FR encoding to
> ISO-8859-15 cannot be done without discussion, but glibc upstream
> has a definitive position: encodings are never changed, period.
> (It recently surfaces again about et_EE)
> So this discussion is over before it begins ;)


So, as a conclusion, these @euro locales are only motivated because
they are associated with different encodings, not because of their
contents.

So I guess we have to find a way to deal with variants in the
Installer..

variantchooser ? :-)