> Anyone know of a reason why I should not `apt-get install locales' on > vcs.sv? I'd leave the default locale as "None", as it is now.
I think every system should have the locales package installed. So definitely installing it is the right thing to do. (BTW: PAM uses the default locale setting for things that "log in" to the system. So in theory as I understand it the default locale should only affect people who log in by some method through PAM. This area has been changing in recent years though and so I might be wrong now. The desire would be to have the default as None which maps to C as you have noted.) > It actually looks like the Savannah gecos data (real names etc) is in > latin-1 rather than utf-8; does anyone know if that is indeed the case? > > I do not know, but it wouldn't surprise me. Probably an artifact of history. As far as I know there is a goal/vision in the Debian system that everything will be uniformly UTF-8. Therefore I assume that the gecos names would also be assumed to be in UTF-8. But it would have been easy for a cut-n-paste error from history to have left some latin-1 encodings behind. I think it would be reasonable to convert the encoding from latin-1 to utf-8 if you had the time and resources to do it. That would be great and it would clean that part up. Bob
