Archaic wrote:
After some time spent chatting with Alexander in IRC, here is my
understanding of the initial part of the bug dealing with the SUPPORTED
file:
<snip>
I think it's reasonable to install the SUPPORTED file in /usr/share/i18n
and explain its usefulness in the book. I don't think we should alter
the file in any way - if there are other locales that happen to work,
we'd need to enquire with upstream whether that's merely accidental, or
whether they are officially supported (and therefore SUPPORTED needs to
be updated).
We can then ask folks to ensure that the locale our heuristic resulted
in also appears in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED. If it does, everything's
great, if not, use the closest thing that *is* in the SUPPORTED file.
However, just because it's in SUPPORTED doesn't mean to say that broken
packages like Xlib will work, right? If Xlib still doesn't work
correctly with a SUPPORTED locale, what other options do we have?
Whatever it is (aside from patching Xlib), will surely result in
recommending a non-SUPPORTED locale which I don't think we want to do.
Regards,
Matt.
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