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Re: locale encodings
- From: Keld Simonsen <keld at keldix dot com>
- To: Steven Abner <pheonix at zoomtown dot com>
- Cc: Troy Korjuslommi <tjk at tksoft dot com>, libc-locales at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 22:04:17 +0100
- Subject: Re: locale encodings
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 03:26:31PM -0500, Steven Abner wrote:
>
> On 14 Nov 2013, at 2:50 AM, Troy Korjuslommi wrote:
>
> > Also, the charset is wrong. It is listed as iso-8859-1
> > for fi_FI and iso-8859-15 for fi_FI@euro. The correct charset for
> > Finnish is UTF-8.
>
> I did a little more digging, it appears "% Charset:" might just be for historical purposes.
> The ones I was going to fill in have to be UTF-8. Most of the information is in the "% Charset:"
> enumerated set, but because all now reference either directly or indirectly "copy "i18n"" in
> the LC_CTYPE section. This includes codes outside the listed Charset. I am not sure yet
> as to interaction of "_t1_common" but it looks like all, even the Chinese must use UTF-8,
> unless:
> We (those using these files) are to isolate only those codes in i18n and t1 that apply to the Charset?
> Steve
The cahrset specification is to list the encodings that a given locale can work with. I think all should work in UTF-8,
but some also work in other encodings. I know the Danish locale also work with iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-15.
I would also think that the Finnish locale would work well in iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-15.
Best regards
keld