On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:14:51AM +0200, giuseppe bonacci wrote: > Package: xlibs-data > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: l10n
> This seems to be a cross-package issue, but I think this is the best > place to raise it. I know I could play with config files and solve the > problem for my pc, but that would not be useful to other users. > > I need a system meeting three conditions: > > - use English localization for messages, numerics, date conversions and > so on. (this suggests C or en_US) No ... > - use a charset including the Euro symbol. (this suggests ISO-8859-15 or > UTF-8) > - have 8 bit long characters. (this rules out UTF-8) ... this suggest using leaving LANG unset and only setting LC_CTYPE to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (No idea whether this is supported by xlibs.) The whole point of the different LC-variables is that you can selectively set them. BTW, don't you use A4 in Italy? > When I 'dpkg-reconfigure locales', my best choice is to generate > en_US.ISO-8859-15 (also listed in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED), and set LANG > (or LC_ALL) accordingly. How about [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] > Now, what about trying to keep xlibs-data's information in sync with > locales' information? Maybe it suffices to have the postinst script for > xlibs-data _merge_ entries from /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED (if present) > into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias, after remapping ISO-8859-x > to ISO8859-x. This indeed would be nice. cu andreas