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Subject: bug#22572: Handling of system 'locale' field needs improvement
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 15:20:37 +0100
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis:

> 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=E2=80=99t always work (the locale name is s=
upposed
> to use the normalized name, like =E2=80=9Cutf8=E2=80=9D, whereas the real=
 name is, say,
> =E2=80=9CUTF-8=E2=80=9D), but it should cover 90% of the use cases.

I pushed an improved version of the patch as f5582b2.

Ludo=E2=80=99.