On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 10:44:12PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Which raise the question: does the corresponding user group moved to UTF-8 ? > Judging from <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_encoding>, > neither Chinese nor Japanese users have overwhelmingly moved to UTF-8, > so it would be problematic to stop supporting BIG5, GB18030 and EUC-JP.
We actually do have data about locale usage in Debian. I've copied .report files from bugs-mirror, and grep -arm1 ^Locale: */*/*.report shows that: * most recent use of BIG5 is #925894 from March 2019 * there's no use of any GB locale (other than en_GB :p) past #609517 (2011) * for EUC there's #1001207 (2021) #953616 #939588 #939494 #893625 Thus: * Chinese encodings are totally dead for being used as a system locale * Japanese are nearly so That Wikipedia page presents stuff from 2008 as new developments, thus is a wee bit outdated... Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Being wise is hard, but wise-ass... ooh, this one I can deliver! ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀