On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 10:44:12PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Which raise the question: does the corresponding user group moved to UTF-8 ?
> Judging from <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_encoding>,
> neither Chinese nor Japanese users have overwhelmingly moved to UTF-8,
> so it would be problematic to stop supporting BIG5, GB18030 and EUC-JP.
We actually do have data about locale usage in Debian.
I've copied .report files from bugs-mirror, and
grep -arm1 ^Locale: */*/*.report
shows that:
* most recent use of BIG5 is #925894 from March 2019
* there's no use of any GB locale (other than en_GB :p) past #609517 (2011)
* for EUC there's #1001207 (2021) #953616 #939588 #939494 #893625
Thus:
* Chinese encodings are totally dead for being used as a system locale
* Japanese are nearly so
That Wikipedia page presents stuff from 2008 as new developments, thus is
a wee bit outdated...
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