Re: non-ASCII characters in locale.alias file

[Ulrich Drepper]

Tomohiro KUBOTA <address@hidden> writes:

> LANG=foobar must be written well in every locales which glibc supports.
> I.e., I should be able to change locale into "fran?ais" from, for
> example, UTF-8 or EUC-JP locales.

Which is why you can use LANG=french.  The français name is just for
convenience of those use used it.

You'll perhaps notice that I haven't anything recently and don't
intend to.  It is not worth the trouble.  The locale settings should
happen using the real names and the "complexity" of figuring these out
should be hidden via an interface similar to that which exists to
select timezones (see the tzselect script).

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