Re: non-ASCII characters in locale.alias file

[Ulrich Drepper]

Tomohiro KUBOTA <address@hidden> writes:

> Well, this is the reason why we can safely remove 'fran?ais'
> from locale.alias file.  If I can use LANG=french, all people in
> the world can use LANG=french.

Nothing can be removed.  What exists might be in use.

> You mean, uses should not edit /etc/locale.alias ?

Certainly not.  Due something similar to what RH does with the
/etc/sysconfig/i18n and /etc/profile.d/lang.{sh,csh} files.  This is
the only sane way to deal with it.

> If you really think usage of ISO-8859-1 here is not a bad idea,

You misunderstood what I said.  The file contains byte sequences,
separated by newlines and white spaces.  The encoding is unimportant.
In fact the file doesn't have one encoding.  Yes, this might lead to
editing problems but that's exactly why the file should be used as is
and not touched again.

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