We use *.UTF-8 locales throughout Ubuntu and do not regard them as "legacy". In fact that naming scheme is the only one listed in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED, which is the canonical list of locale names supported by our system. I view it as an unfortunate accident that 'locale -a' canonicalises differently.
-- files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132357 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs