From: Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 21:19:37 +0900 > However, the current woody system (with locale 2.1.97-1) has only > one UTF-8 locale of ko_KR.utf8. UTF-8 locales are needed for this > model to work well. Why only it?
I guess that original glibc documents write a "currently supported and somewhat tested locales", and Debian's glibc also follows it (see glibc's source code localedata/SUPPORTED). Only some UTF-8 locale are supported. Because UTF-8 is not well-tested or some entries are missing for UTF-8 unsupported locales. Please test and patch to localedata to be ready for UTF-8. If you want to run applications under UTF-8 environment, just make a UTF-8 locale using localedef (potato), or write an appropriate entry into /etc/locale.gen (woody). To make your favorite locale using localedef is easy. In future, we may all use UTF-8 locale, but currently we merely use UTF-8 locale. It's the big reason which UTF-8 are not needed now. Regards, -- GOTO Masanori
