On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 02:53:53PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > Hi Denis, > > > > > > Maybe it's sufficient to have only .UTF-8 locales and the @euro can be > > > > > obsoleted. > > > > > > > > Absolutely. > > > > > > Thus, does such a bug already exist filed against the locales package? > > > > I don't think so. > > Maybe you could discuss this issue on the debian-glibc mailing list > > first. > > Anyway, is there any problem related to console-tools, or should this > > bugreport be closed or reassigned to the locales package? > > well, let's say that i'd wish (for console-tools) to have a more > meaningful errormsg (as no other program was/is complaining about that > setting so far). So either make the output go 2>/dev/null or at least > let the user know that having an "export ..." in /etc/environment is BAD > by either locales or console-tools. > If someone can give me a helping hand to take this to debian-glibc, i'd > be happy to help, but all on my own i feel somewhat too bad prepared to > just walk up there and tell "[EMAIL PROTECTED] is OBSOLETE, so remove it and > leave only .UTF-8 in".
[Please respect the Mail-Followup-To debian-glibc and Kilian Krause] Debian-glibc folks, XFree86 had to be patched to accept [EMAIL PROTECTED] locales, other applications like console-tools seem to have trouble too with these locales. Of course those applications should be fixed, relying on locale names is deeply broken, but [EMAIL PROTECTED] and .UTF-8 locales are identical, so why are [EMAIL PROTECTED] needed at all? It seems that many European people are confused and believe that if both locales exist, [EMAIL PROTECTED] does provide some extra fonctionnality over .UTF-8. In order to prevent useless duplicates, I believe that [EMAIL PROTECTED] locales should be removed from the locales.config maintainer script (but not from /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED). In this bugreport, there had also been discussions regarding /etc/environment. This file is undocumented (or its documentation is not visible), maybe a comment should be added by the locales package when this file is created? This comment should explain that this file is not sourced by script shells, and should only consist of comments and lines in the form variable=value. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
