thx Suresh, Fedora has many legacy locales : uname -a Linux sid2 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 #1 Thu Jun 2 22:55:56 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root at sid2 ~]# locale -a|grep iso88595 mk_MK.iso88595 ru_RU.iso88595 sr_CS.iso88595
but you're right they can't be accessed through the login screen if you mean removing completely from the system when you say "EOF'ing legacy locales" then I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that will happen (at least not any time soon) Suresh Chandrasekharan wrote: > Hi Peter, > Thanks for the comments. EOFing legacy locales, and moving towards > a UTF-8 only desktop > is in our roadmap and we just can't go back on this. We should not > underestimate the effort > required to support legacy locales forever. > > In otherwords localelnchr project was created in order to support this > vision of move towards > UTF-8 desktop and we want to make progress in that area. > > AFIK major linux flavors does not have legacy login support, though > they have the needed > conversion modules, some legacy encoded fonts etc. I don't remember > seeing any legacy locales > in a Ubuntu/Fedora system when giving a 'locale -a', but I may be > mistaken, don't have any > linuxes around to check on this. > > Thanks, > Suresh > > Peter.Nugent at Sun.COM wrote: >> hi Suresh >> thx for this 1 pager. >> just a couple of initial questions : >> >> - we could take an alternative and simpler route to solving the non >> appearance of legacy locales in GDM - make a 1 off GDM point patch >> with all locales available. I know we want to encourage users to >> migrate to UTF-8 but if they really want to stay with legacy locales >> then this alternative solution would seem to be more convenient esp. >> if they need to launch lots of different applications. >> - how does linux solve this problem ? >> >> thx >> Peter >> >> Suresh Chandrasekharan wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Pl. see attached fasttrack one pager and man page for locale >>> launcher utility. >>> I'm setting the timer to expire on Aug 23rd (2 weeks) as we already >>> have >>> localeadm one pager to review. >>> >>> A few things in particular I love to hear your feedback. >>> >>> 1. The project requests major release binding, since the legacy >>> locales won't be removed from s10 updates >>> localelnchr is not expected to deliver to an update. Any issues with >>> this assumption ? >>> >>> 2. As mentioned in the one pager, need I think we need to work out >>> some consolidation private >>> interfaces for starting/stopping input for certain languages. Is >>> this OK ? >>> >>> 3. Though haven't mentioned this in onepager, I'm planning to make >>> this an OpenSolaris project. >>> Any issues in using Gnome/Gtk for an OpenSolaris project ? >>> >>> 4. Feedback about the font handling scenario. We are proposing to >>> issue warning messages in case needed >>> fonts are not found, correcting the font path won't be done.. >>> >>> 5. Any other feedback/comments/questions welcome >>> >>> Thanks much, >>> Suresh >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> i18n-discuss mailing list >>> i18n-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/i18n-discuss >
