Bug#1026231: debian-policy: document droppage of support for legacy locales

2023-01-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 12:58:19PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 05:16:43PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > > >> Sure, but neither of those actually require us to support GBK or GB > >> 18030 as a system locale, only as something that iconv() (or

Bug#1026231: debian-policy: document droppage of support for legacy locales

2023-01-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Wouter Verhelst writes: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 05:16:43PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: >> Sure, but neither of those actually require us to support GBK or GB >> 18030 as a system locale, only as something that iconv() (or whatever >> browsers actually use, which is probably their own thing) ca

Bug#1026231: debian-policy: document droppage of support for legacy locales

2023-01-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 05:16:43PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 at 09:54:21 -0700, Anthony Fok wrote: > > supposedly some older Chinese websites are still using "GBK" as > > encoding, probably something like: > > > > > > > > which has less than 30,000 characters and th