On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 12:14:05PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > Thinking about it a little further, I noticed the current debconf question > for selecting locale is already dynamic, adding the contents of > /etc/locale.gen to those from /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED. In this case, > rather than having a separate UTF-8 question as I suggested above, it would > be better to dynamically generate .UTF-8 entries in this current question > based on the locales already present. The idea is to keep > /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED from getting overcrowded with locale variants. > > I am assuming here that UTF-8 is in fact a valid charset for all locales.
You cannot assume that. Upstream creates the SUPPORTED list based on locales it knows to work. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
