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Re: [PATCH] Fix Charset comment in fi_FI, fi_FI at euro


Hi,

ANGSTROM SIGN is specified in the standard to sort it alongside with å/Å.

There is also a recent proposal to extend the auxiliary character set
(that's the closest translation I came up with, it's
"lisämerkkivalikoima" in Finnish in the proposal) with characters that
might be needed when processing texts in the Finnish context and the
proposal contains several non-ISO-8859-15 characters, see
http://www.kotoistus.fi/kannanotot_html/avoimet/lisamerkisto-2013.

So I think it's better not to suggest using ISO-8859-15 any more.

Thanks,

On 2013-11-26 19:25, keld@keldix.com wrote:
> It is not necessary to specify UTF-8, all locales support UTF-8.
> The question is whether the locale can be used with iso-8859-15. 
> More than one charset may be specified with the charset comment.
> If you like you could specify both UTF-8 and iso-8859-15,
> with utf-8 first, if that is the preference.
> 
> What is ANGSTROM used for? As an alternative to Å in the sorting?
> And other places?
> 
> Best regards
> keld
> 
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 07:05:55PM +0200, Marko Myllynen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> please see the patch below to fix the Charset comment in fi_FI and
>> fi_FI@euro. ISO-8859-1 is certainly incorrect with Euro and since SFS-EN
>> 13710 (which we will hopefully support later) specifies a
>> non-ISO-8859-15 character (ANGSTROM SIGN) it seems best to use UTF-8.
>>
>> 2013-11-26  Marko Myllynen  <myllynen@redhat.com>
>>
>> 	* locales/fi_FI: Fix Charset comment.
>> 	* locales/fi_FI@euro: Likewise.
>>
>> diff --git a/localedata/locales/fi_FI b/localedata/locales/fi_FI
>> index f779964..6ea9301 100644
>> --- a/localedata/locales/fi_FI
>> +++ b/localedata/locales/fi_FI
>> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ comment_char    %
>>  % Date: 1996-10-15
>>  % Application: general
>>  % Users: general
>> -% Charset: ISO-8859-1
>> +% Charset: UTF-8
>>  % Distribution and use is free, also
>>  % for commercial purposes.
>>  %
>> diff --git a/localedata/locales/fi_FI@euro b/localedata/locales/fi_FI@euro
>> index 76f78ee..ef7f8cd 100644
>> --- a/localedata/locales/fi_FI@euro
>> +++ b/localedata/locales/fi_FI@euro
>> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ comment_char    %
>>  % Date: 2000-08-20
>>  % Application: general
>>  % Users: general
>> -% Charset: ISO-8859-15
>> +% Charset: UTF-8
>>  % Distribution and use is free, also
>>  % for commercial purposes.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Marko Myllynen


-- 
Marko Myllynen


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