On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 10:20:24PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > 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. >
Oh OK. Is it possible to summarise what the issues are for UTF-8 to be considered "supported"? I mean, what's the difference between en_AU.UTF-8 and en_GB.UTF-8 (or en_US.UTF-8), as far as the UTF-8 charset is concerned? Wouldn't it simply require a conversion from the default ISO-8859-1 charset to UTF-8, which will work just as well for en_AU as it does for en_GB or en_US? Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
