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Re: Default charset for ar locales?



On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 03:43:42PM +0100, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 05:38, Christian Perrier wrote:
> [...]
> > As a last minute fix, because of the upcoming release, I have changed
> > the default locales to be UTF-8 for Arabic, and the 2nd stage then
> > uses jfbterm as it does for Asian or Hebrew languages.
> 
> Actually, we prefer Arabic support in UTF-8 always. You can almost
> regard ISO-8859-6 as a legacy. So you will probably get other feedback
> like 'yes, we need UTF-8, once and for all'.
> 
Yes, I agree here, But please try to keep the ISO-6 locale in debian, U never know when you might need/use it.

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