Re: Apology to german users required in the release notes

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier) writes:

> AFAICT only Unicode transliteration was added to libc locales at first
> place, then some people requested locale additions.  A bug has been
> filed on 2004-03-03 to request additions to German locales, but Ulrich
> Drepper did not comment on it yet.
>   http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56
> Fortunately glibc maintainers do not usually wait for Ulrich comments
> about locales stuff, since it does not seem to be high priority for him,
> but in this case they refuse to apply the requested changes.

So it seems to me that gotom is being a twit and should make the
change.  But it's also just too late to make it for sarge, which
sucks, but that's the way it is.

Meanwhile, we don't need an apology in the release notes; what we need
is advice about which locale to use to get decent behavior. 

Thomas