Bug#214906: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#214906: locales: locale-gen cannot generate fr_FR.UT-8@euro because it is not in locale.alias)

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#214906: locales: locale-gen cannot generate [EMAIL PROTECTED] because it is not in 
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On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:23:10PM +0200, Sylvain Ferriol wrote:

Package: locales
Version: 2.3.2-7
Severity: normal

i try to configure debian to UTF-8
so i run dpkg-reconfigure locales and select [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[...]

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux bredele 2.4.18-686 #1 Sun Apr 14 11:32:47 EST 2002 i686
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Err, if this locale was broken, you certainly would have changed these
settings ;)
I am closing this bug, locale seems to be generated.  OTOH you will
have trouble with X applications, you might either choose fr_FR.UTF-8
or add the line below in your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias
     [EMAIL PROTECTED]:           fr_FR.UTF-8
This is a known bug in XFree86 (#185656).

Denis

For me it does not work, i'm using locales_2.3.2-7, in this package /etc/locale.alias is:
......
fran�ais fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
french fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
.......

now , if you're already in fr_FR.UTF-8, remove or move /usr/share/locale/fr_FR.UTF8

do a dpkg-reconfigure locales, and select fr_FR.UTF-8

and it does not create /usr/share/locale/fr_FR.UTF8
because in locale-gen script, there is 'localedef .... -A /etc/locale.alias ....'

if manually, you enter the command:
localedef -i fr_FR -f UTF-8 /usr/share/locale/fr_FR.UTF-8

so without -A option, it works

sylvain

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