At Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:45:00 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > The following patch > reorders SUPPORTED when embedding the list in locales.config, so that > UTF-8 locales are listed before all other locales, which are placed at > the end of the list.
The concept of your patch seems fine for me. I heard that debian-installer BoF in debconf5 decided to switch UTF-8 as default locale in installer. So normal users who use just debian-installer will move to UTF-8 in etch. However, I don't know it's nice idea to put all UTF-8 locales at the top. Actually many users have not switched to UTF-8 yet, so they want to select both UTF-8 and obsolete charsets at the same time. So, instead, I would like to change as follows: - The current order of SUPPORTED list (appeared at the first screen of dpkg-reconfigure locales) is for example: iw_IL ISO-8859-8 iw_IL.UTF-8 UTF-8 ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8 But the new order of SUPPORTED list is for example: iw_IL.UTF-8 UTF-8 iw_IL ISO-8859-8 ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8 ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP - Selecting system standard locale (appeared at the second screen of dpkg-reconfigure locales) lists UTF-8 prior than other charmaps for example: iw_IL.UTF-8 UTF-8 iw_IL ISO-8859-8 ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8 ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP I would like to put this version to locales package. I welcome your comments and patches. > I've also added a small note to the debconf > template to make the user aware that UTF-8 locales are recommended, but > the other locales are still available should they be needed. > > --- glibc-2.3.2.ds1.old/debian/debhelper.in/locales.templates 2005-06-10 > 11:04:53.000000000 +0100 > +++ glibc-2.3.2.ds1/debian/debhelper.in/locales.templates 2005-06-10 > 21:35:57.000000000 +0100 > @@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ > Choose which locales to generate. The selection will be saved to > `/etc/locale.gen', which you can also edit manually (you need to run > `locale-gen' afterwards). > + . > + UTF-8 locales are recommended. Locales using old national character sets > + are provided for backwards-compatibility, but should not be used unless > + strictly required. I don't know whether we should recommend use of UTF-8, because selecting localedata via locales debconf depends on user's decision. IMHO we have no authority to push the claim of "should not be used unless strictly required". Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]