I am wondering this posting did go through. I found that I did not
receive my posting back from the list.

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Subject: Re: [I18n]Please do not use en_US.UTF-8 outside the US
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hideki Hiura)
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Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 11:39:34 -0700 (PDT)
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> From: Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Please check the locale.dir file, which remaps all known UTF-8 locales
> to use the data from en_US.UTF-8.

That's the bug.

> I agree with you that there is a bug, the directory en_US.UTF-8 should
> be simply called UTF-8, as it is the common locale directory for all
> UTF-8 locales.

I disagree, and I explained the reason in the mail:

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Subject: Re: [I18n]UTF-8 in XLC_LOCALE
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Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 22:02:24 -0700 (PDT)


Of course we can change this by massively modifying the structure
and architecture in X locale database, but not as simple as you say
"should be simply called UTF-8, as it is the common locale directory for all
UTF-8 locales."

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