Ubuntu
language-selector package

  1. Bug #666565
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 666565

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Aron Xu (happyaron) wrote :

The problem of "utf8" and "UTF-8" has been there for some time, and there were arguments about it. Let's see:

$ locale -a
C
POSIX
zh_CN.utf8
zh_SG.utf8

# locale-gen
Generating locales...
  zh_CN.UTF-8... up-to-date
  zh_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.

The problem is that we have mixed up the use of "utf8" and "UTF-8", and I think language-selector isn't the root of such problem - it should be a lower level one.

Many Ubuntu developers tend to use utf8 instead of UTF-8 because it is "defined in eglibc and UTF-8 is now an alias". But we may consider it a bug in the eglibc package in Ubuntu. It has broke many things, many people are confused, work become more complicated. While, I don't mean changing it to UTF-8 can solve all problems, but it might be the right thing.