Bug#389065: [debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Bug#389065: debiandoc-sgml: [INTL:ru] Russian UTF-8 locale

[Jens Seidel]

Hi Yuri,

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 09:52:58PM +0400, Yuri Kozlov wrote:
> Hello.
> The attached diff is contains the 'iconv -f koi8-r -t utf-8' conversion 
> result on the Locale/ru_RU.KOI8-R/* files with a small translation improvement.
> 
> As in the 'etch' by default used a utf-8 encoding for Russian, it would be nice to have
> a ru_RU.UTF-8 locale support.
> This diff is not changed the 'system' alias 'ru'.
> I have builded russian html and pdf files from release-notes sources and
> it is works.

yep, I agree that UTF-8 should be supported for a wider range of
languages. I think a general solution which starts iconv to transform
the encoding of existing strings to UTF-8 (or other encodings) would be
more useful and reduce duplicated information. If I do not provide such
a patch in the next time we should really apply your patch for now :-)
 
> Many thanks to Eugeniy for his a UTF-8 patch (#366992).

Indeed, without his great help UTF-8 support would be still missing.

Jens