Locale/charset combinations
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@false.org
Mon Jun 26 06:19:00 GMT 2006
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 04:54:01PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why are currently so few locales/character set combinations supported?
> There must be hundreds if not thousands of valid combinations for which
> no entry exists in localedata/SUPPORTED. For certain character sets that
> are defined there are no valid locale/charset cominations. This makes it
> impossible to use tools like sed and grep using the [:alpha:] set of
> regular expressions on files encoded with such character sets (unless I
> am overseeing a way to override the used character set for a given
> locale).
What do you want that can't be achieved by setting LC_CTYPE?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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