On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 03:28:35PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Denis Barbier] > > This is indeed much simpler, but why do you still believe that > > country and language are related? > > The locale is a combination of language and region (country).
The territory part gives language variants, it is not related to geographic location. Moreover locales also contain encoding informations. [...] > > I also do not understand why locales are not selected by the locales > > package; in other words, languagechooser should only set the > > LANGUAGE variable, doesn't it? > > No, I do not see the value of having two packages asking for almost > the same information. But the locales package has to be installed and configured in order to provide a full i18n support, so why don't we use it? > I believe asking which locale (language/regian) > to use is better then asking first for language, and then for locale. Again there are 3 encodings for fr_FR, how will user choose his preferred one? Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
