On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 07:06:52PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I suppose one reason this isn't done is because locale generation does > > take quite a while (maybe 20 seconds per locale on my system). There > > are probably other, less obvious reasons this isn't done, but I don't > > know them. One such might be http://bugs.debian.org/99623 ; but that > > doesn't seem to prevent generating UTF-8 most of the time. > > It would be yet simpler to eliminate all non-utf-8 locales.
It would be "simpler", but since the vast majority of the world is still using legacy locales, it's irrelevant. Come back in 5-10 years, maybe; I'm talking about things that can be done today. -- Glenn Maynard -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
