Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Better yet, the value of the 'locale' field should be automatically
> added to the default value of 'locale-definitions' if it's not already
> there.  The overwhelming majority of users set their 'locale' and have
> no interest in 'locale-definitions'.

What about this?  This is not ideal in that it guesses the charset based
on the locale name, which won’t always work (the locale name is supposed
to use the normalized name, like “utf8”, whereas the real name is, say,
“UTF-8”), but it should cover 90% of the use cases.