From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11303 invoked by alias); 14 Nov 2013 21:17:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-locales-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-locales-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 29569 invoked by uid 89); 14 Nov 2013 21:04:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RDNS_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: www.open-std.org Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 21:17:00 -0000 From: Keld Simonsen To: Steven Abner Cc: Troy Korjuslommi , libc-locales@sourceware.org Subject: Re: locale encodings Message-ID: <20131114210417.GA9513@www5.open-std.org> References: <31AACAB8-A716-47CC-B755-F33DD77BA51E@zoomtown.com> <1384174607.4028.8.camel@uno11.loco> <20131112012257.GA31828@rap.rap.dk> <5281BEB1.2010909@redhat.com> <20131112133642.GA22738@rap.rap.dk> <98244D14-49A6-4953-8F6B-9D393E435324@zoomtown.com> <1384415405.2935.29.camel@uno11.loco> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SW-Source: 2013-q4/txt/msg00089.txt.bz2 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