At Tue, 24 Dec 2002 13:54:59 +0100,
Morten Brix Pedersen wrote:
> The idea with having the user select his/her own locale is great. But
> for newcomers to Linux, the locale names aren't really understandable.
>
> So it would be excellent if the language name of the locale could be
> spelled out next to the locale name when configuring the locales
> package.
>
> E.g.:
>
> Danish (da_DK ISO-8859-1)
> Spanish (es_ES ISO-8859-1)
> British English (en_GB ISO-8859-1)
> American English (en_US ISO-8859-1)
Well, it's not slightly appropriate, because locale is
consists of at least 4 sections like:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
So, example name framework leads sometimes confusion, and it needs
some maintainance cost.
> That's a big jump for user friendlyness when installing a new Debian
> system, imho.
That's right.
I propose we use it for "title" entry in localedata/locales/* files.
For example,
<general name> <locale> <charset>
Danish locale for Denmark da_DK ISO-8859-1
Spanish locale for Spain es_ES ISO-8859-1
English locale for Britain en_GB ISO-8859-1
German locale for Germany with Euro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ISO-8859-15
Arabic language locale for Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ar_LY ISO-8859-6
Japanese language locale for Japan ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP
Japanese language locale for Japan ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8
It's easy to generate these entries automatically, and it's more
understandable for users. Is this OK?
Regards,
-- gotom
