Kaixo!

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:37:56AM -0500, Noah Levitt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Should a combination like LANG=fr_FR LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
> result in something equivalent to LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8?

Isn't what you are looking for:

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=fr

that is, all locale stuff defined to en_US.UTF-8, and French translations
if available.
 
> If so, maybe we should separate encoding from language, make
> one UTF-8 locale, and encourage people to use 
> LANG=whatever LC_CTYPE=UTF-8.

LC_CTYPE is not independent of the language.
For exemple in Turkish the capitalization of "i" letter is different
than in English or French. That is defined in LC_CTYPE.

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