on 2009?12?23? 10:55, Takao Fujiwara wrote: > On (12/23/2009 11:26 AM), FU Ning-san wrote: >> Does the man page mention "locale.alias" file and "Latin alphabet" >> locale somewhere? >> By default the traditional "C/POSIX" locale is not displayed on the >> language selection list. It can be enabled by uncomment the line in >> /usr/share/gdm/locale.alias file. But the name displayed on the list >> becomes "Latin alphabet". > > It might be my failure. > The locale.alias is not upstreamed yet but under discussion. > Probably I think it's better to revert "Latin alphabet" to "Unspecified". > > Currently the name of "C/POSIX" is not good since it's not the > language name in GDM language list. > My suggestion was "Latin alphabet" to modify the original > "Unspecified" to follow the explanation of wikipedia. > But it's also not good because C locale doesn't mean either latin only > or English only. > Since currently there is no good explanation, probably it would be > better to revert to the original "Unspecified". >
Hi, Takao: "Unspecified" and "Latin alphabet" are not language names, either. Why not just use "C/POSIX"? I think for normal English speaking users they would be fine with en_US.UTF-8 and won't bother to look for "C/POSIX". "C/POSIX" only has meaning to those who know it -- such as developers. I think for those people "C/POSIX" is much straightforward than other expressions. Just my two cents. Best Regards, Harry Fu
