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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:50:00
Message-Id: 4F42170F.6010003@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by default by "Mr. Aaron W. Swenson"
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4 Mr. Aaron W. Swenson schrieb:
5 >> P.S. would be nice to have a wd_WD.UTF-8 with WD standing for
6 >> world, just a country is so 1900
7 >>
8 >
9 > wd_WD.UTF-8 is certainly a no go. WD doesn't match any ISO country
10 > code. To support it, we'd have to create the necessary supporting
11 > files and that would lead to a lot of work and headaches trying to
12 > determine what should be where in what order, et cetera.
13
14 C or POSIX does not match any country code either. FWIW, Debian has
15 patched their glibc fork to remove the charset restriction on the C
16 locale, and added C.UTF-8. It has the "advantage" of not messing with
17 transliteration as LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 would.
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19 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609306
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22 Best regards,
23 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
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