Re: Please do not use en_US.UTF-8 outside the US

[Glenn Maynard <g_lutf8@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 07:06:52PM -0400, seer26@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I suppose one reason this isn't done is because locale generation does
> > take quite a while (maybe 20 seconds per locale on my system).  There
> > are probably other, less obvious reasons this isn't done, but I don't
> > know them.  One such might be http://bugs.debian.org/99623 ; but that
> > doesn't seem to prevent generating UTF-8 most of the time.
> 
> It would be yet simpler to eliminate all non-utf-8 locales.

It would be "simpler", but since the vast majority of the world is still
using legacy locales, it's irrelevant.  Come back in 5-10 years, maybe;
I'm talking about things that can be done today.

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