if we shift to use utf8, what about other distro still use UTF-8? are we going to ignore the interoperability. In addition, how can we convince all other user space applications adopt utf8? I found that UTF-8 is till being used in eglibc, so whats the advantage to use utf8?
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@canonical.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:13:56PM -0000, Aron Xu wrote: >> No, it wouldn't be. I think any application that doesn't work with >> .UTF-8 should be a bug, but not for it doesn't work with .utf8. > > I entirely disagree. .utf8 is a valid spelling of the locale and it's a > bug for applications to fail to work with it. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/666565 > > Title: > "utf8" charmap in locale name is wrong > > Status in Ubuntu Translations: > Triaged > Status in “eglibc” package in Ubuntu: > New > Status in “langpack-locales” package in Ubuntu: > New > Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu: > New > Status in “vim” package in Ubuntu: > New > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: language-selector > > LanguageSelector/macros.py explicitly sets the charmap part of locale > strings to "utf8" - it should be set to "UTF-8" instead. This is > relevant because not all systems alias locale names with the former to > the latter, and compatibility with those systems is broken. > > Rationale for this change is that the 'locales' package uses the uppercase > hyphenated format everywhere, even going as far as replacing '.utf8' with it > in one case: > % dpkg -L locales | xargs grep '\.utf8' > /usr/sbin/locale-gen: elif [ $IS_LANG = no ] && L=`grep > "^${1/%.utf8/.UTF-8} " /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED`; then > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-translations/+bug/666565/+subscribe > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/666565 Title: "utf8" charmap in locale name is wrong -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
