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Subject: Re: Frequent locales problems for new users
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On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:28:43 -0400
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

> First, we can deprecate the glibc-utf8-locales package and not mention
> it in the manual section Application Setup. I've seen users think they
> had to install it in order to get UTF-8 support. Everyone should be
> using glibc-locales.

I mean to recall that I read in the docs and/or in an example, that
glibc-utf8-locales is smaller than glibc-locales, but still sufficient
for many cases. Is that wrong?


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Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de>