Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-11 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:57:45PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:45:24AM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > But since we only have ibritish and iamerican packages, I do not think > > we can get icanadian package to check spel

Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:45:24AM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > But since we only have ibritish and iamerican packages, I do not think > we can get icanadian package to check spelling for Canada. You could always go through a Canadian dictionary and ma

Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:33:47AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:40:58PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:24:01PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > > I don't know, no, no, and yes. US does mo/day/yr, we do day/mo/yr > > > (when we're not doing -

Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales

2004-01-10 Thread Michael D Schleif
"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:01:10:15:18:27-0700] scribed: > Incoming from Colin Watson: > > > > Try 'set charset=iso-8859-1' instead. > > That makes mutt mis-display foreign characters. I've since just > commented out that variable. I have this: set charset="//TRANSLIT" -- Best

Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales

2004-01-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Colin Watson: > > Try 'set charset=iso-8859-1' instead. That makes mutt mis-display foreign characters. I've since just commented out that variable. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - -

Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales

2004-01-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Colin Watson: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 01:41:07PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > [...] > > set charset=isolatin > > Where did that setting come from? I don't believe that's a valid MIME Good question. Next? :-) > character set name, nor something that the iconv character conversion

Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales

2004-01-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 01:41:07PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Leandro Guimarïes Faria Corcete Dutra: > > Em Qui, 2004-01-08 Ãs 15:45, s. keeling escreveu: > > > This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet > > > Service. To view the original message content

Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-09 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Paul Johnson: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:21:49AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > Oh! Canadian! And here the whole time I've been thinking, "California > > needs its own dialect? Well, yeah, I guess they probably do." > > That's rather insulting to Canadians to compare them t

Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales

2004-01-09 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra: > > Em Qui, 2004-01-08 às 15:45, s. keeling escreveu: > > This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet > > Service. To view the original message content, open the attached > > message. If the text doesn't display co

Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales

2004-01-09 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Looks like your encoding is broken yet... Em Qui, 2004-01-08 Ãs 15:45, s. keeling escreveu: > This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet > Service. To view the original message content, open the attached > message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save

Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-08 Thread Nano Nano
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:25:27PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:21:49AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > Oh! Canadian! And here the whole time I've been thinking, "California > > needs its own dialect? Well, yeah, I guess they probably do." > > That's rather insult

Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:21:49AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Oh! Canadian! And here the whole time I've been thinking, "California > needs its own dialect? Well, yeah, I guess they probably do." That's rather insulting to Canadians to compa

Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales

2004-01-08 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra: > See what arrives here, looks to me like it's broken: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=isolatin > X-message-flag: You are infected with the Outlook Viral Transport Agent! http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/2001.11/msg00128.htm

Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-08 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 at 13:33 GMT, Bijan Soleymani penned: > > They might. But in general I think that in Canadian English there is a > mix of American and British spelling and often both are acceptable. > Of course you should be consistent, and not switch spellings in the > middle of a sentence. >

Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales

2004-01-08 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
See what arrives here, looks to me like it's broken: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=isolatin X-message-flag: You are infected with the Outlook Viral Transport Agent! Em Qua, 2004-01-07 Ãs 20:16, s. keeling escreveu: > This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Inter

Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:40:58PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:24:01PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > I don't know, no, no, and yes. US does mo/day/yr, we do day/mo/yr > > (when we're not doing -mm-dd (iso). Are spelling dictionaries > > affected by locale? Dunno. >

Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:24:01PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > I don't know, no, no, and yes. US does mo/day/yr, we do day/mo/yr > (when we're not doing -mm-dd (iso). Are spelling dictionaries > affected by locale? Dunno. I think en_ca and en_uk

Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-07 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:08:22PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:24:01PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > > > I don't know, no, no, and yes. US does mo/day/yr, we do day/mo/yr > > (when we're not doing -mm-dd (iso). Are spelling dictionaries > > affected by locale? Dunno.

Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales

2004-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:31:44PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Leandro Guimarïes Faria Corcete Dutra: > > Actually, since this is an *old* version, you'd be better upgrading to > > at least testing if you *really* want to check if that's a bug first. > > Then shouldn't glibcbug an

Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-07 Thread Nano Nano
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:24:01PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > I don't know, no, no, and yes. US does mo/day/yr, we do day/mo/yr > (when we're not doing -mm-dd (iso). Are spelling dictionaries > affected by locale? Dunno. Oi, the date format is endlessly confusing if you're American and y

Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-07 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qua, 2004-01-07 Ãs 19:24, s. keeling escreveu: > Incoming from Nano Nano: > > > > What features of en_CA distinguish it from en_US? > > Are spelling dictionaries > affected by locale? Dunno. Should be, as well as user interface text. Do you use more of British or US vocabulary and g

Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales

2004-01-07 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qua, 2004-01-07 Ãs 19:32, s. keeling escreveu: > This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet > Service. To view the original message content, open the attached > message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the attachment to > disk, and then open it using a

Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales

2004-01-07 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra: > Em Qua, 2004-01-07 às 05:25, s. keeling escreveu: > > What a strange loop I've landed in. I started out trying to make > > en_CA locale work. "dpkg-reconfigure locales" everybody said, but > > that didn't do it. Once I edited /etc/locale.ge

Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-07 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Nano Nano: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:25:46AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > What a strange loop I've landed in. I started out trying to make > > en_CA locale work. "dpkg-reconfigure locales" everybody said, but > > What features of en_CA distinguish it from en_US? > Is the currenc

Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales

2004-01-07 Thread David Z Maze
"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What a strange loop I've landed in. I started out trying to make > en_CA locale work. "dpkg-reconfigure locales" everybody said, but > that didn't do it. Once I edited /etc/locale.gen and > /etc/locale.alias, then ran locale-gen, it was finally fixed.

Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales

2004-01-07 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qua, 2004-01-07 Ãs 05:25, s. keeling escreveu: > What a strange loop I've landed in. I started out trying to make > en_CA locale work. "dpkg-reconfigure locales" everybody said, but > that didn't do it. Once I edited /etc/locale.gen and > /etc/locale.alias, then ran locale-gen, it was finally

en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-07 Thread Nano Nano
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:25:46AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > What a strange loop I've landed in. I started out trying to make > en_CA locale work. "dpkg-reconfigure locales" everybody said, but What features of en_CA distinguish it from en_US? Is the currency symbol "$" ?? Sort order different?

www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales

2004-01-07 Thread s. keeling
What a strange loop I've landed in. I started out trying to make en_CA locale work. "dpkg-reconfigure locales" everybody said, but that didn't do it. Once I edited /etc/locale.gen and /etc/locale.alias, then ran locale-gen, it was finally fixed. In /etc/locale.alias it says to use the glibcbug