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Re: default charset for imlicit locale specificatio


On Jan 20 12:40, Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2010/1/20 Corinna Vinschen:
> >> ?1257 ANSI/Baltic ? ? ? ? ? ? -> ISO-8859-4
> 
> ISO-8859-13?

Yes, you're right.

> >> ?1258 ANSI/Vietnamese ? ? ? ? -> UTF-8
> >> 65001 UTF-8 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? -> UTF-8
> >>
> >> Is that a valid transition?
> 
> Yeah, good enough anyway. There will be special cases, but tough.

I already found one:  et_EE -> cp 1257, Linux ISO-8859-1, not -13.
Maybe later.

> > I also noticed that on Linux two-letter settings like "de" or "ja" do not
> > change the charset from ASCII to something else.
> 
> Such locales don't usually exist on Linux, i.e. it's probably that
> setlocale is failing, leaving the
> program in "C".

Uh, you're right.  I mislead myself by the entries in /usr/share/locale,
but the system locales are in /usr/lib/locale and there are no "de" or
"jp" locales there.

Nevertheless, maybe we should treat the languages w/o TERRITORY the same?


Corinna

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