bug#22572: Handling of system 'locale' field needs improvement

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Better yet, the value of the 'locale' field should be automatically
>> added to the default value of 'locale-definitions' if it's not already
>> there.  The overwhelming majority of users set their 'locale' and have
>> no interest in 'locale-definitions'.
>
> What about this?  This is not ideal in that it guesses the charset based
> on the locale name, which won’t always work (the locale name is supposed
> to use the normalized name, like “utf8”, whereas the real name is, say,
> “UTF-8”), but it should cover 90% of the use cases.

I pushed an improved version of the patch as f5582b2.

Ludo’.