Quoting Christoph Anton Mitterer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi > > Can you point me to a good ressource where everything about > locales/charsets/keyboardmodes/etc is explained. > -I mean introductory things about how charmaps/keyboardsettings/locales > relate to each other, and how to properly create them. > And epecially for locales, how to properly include new locales in a > Debian system.
Denis Barbier made a very interesting presentation last year at Debconf 5 (which I very unfortunately missed because I was just preparing my own presentation which was scheduled just after it). You probably can find pointers on this presentation and even the presentation video itself. I just don't have the right URL handy right now. Denis, ping (though using "locale" in a mail subject is very likely to trigger an answer by Denis)..... About a "en_DE" locale: I think that such locales are somewhat discouraged upstream (ie in the glibc) when the given language is not an official language in the relevant country. Otherwise we would have a crazy nightmare of thoousands of locales. So, don't expect to see it accepted upstream, I think. en_DK is a counterexample which is in locales for historical reasons and was meant to be a kind of demo case. But, well, at some moment I was myself writing an ar_FR locale, so..... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
