Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] ok to install "locales" package on vcs.sv?
> 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
Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] ok to install "locales" package on vcs.sv?
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.
Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] ok to install "locales" package on vcs.sv?
Karl Berry wrote: > 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. > > As long as the default locale doesn't change, sounds safe enough to > me to try. Done. 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?
Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] ok to install "locales" package on vcs.sv?
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. As long as the default locale doesn't change, sounds safe enough to me to try. Please just keep an eye for it for people reporting new and strange errors that might be related, after doing it. I think this is the way to solve a bzr commit email issue with non-ascii characters in people's Savannah user names. Happy hacking. Thanks, k
[Savannah-hackers-public] ok to install "locales" package on vcs.sv?
Hi, 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 this is the way to solve a bzr commit email issue with non-ascii characters in people's Savannah user names. It seems a bit odd that the package is not there already, so thought I'd ask...
