Re: Dropping some locales/encodings?

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 08:41:08PM -0700, Sergey Manucharian wrote:
> Excerpts from Baptiste Daroussin's message from Tue 01-Mar-16 00:23:
> > 
> > I would like to remove (provided that unicode version are available)
> > 
> > Here is the list of locales/encodings:
> > 
> > be_BY.CP1251
> > be_BY.CP1131
> > hi_IN.ISCII-DEV
> > hy_AM.ARMSCII-8
> > zh_HK.Big5HKSCS
> > 
> > Provided that those should be covered by respectively:
> > be_BY.ISO8859-5 be_BY.UTF-8
> > hi_IN.UTF-8
> > hy_AM.UTF-8
> > zh_HK.UTF-8 zh_Hans_HK.UTF-8
> > 
> > Anyone has a strong opinion against this removal?
> > 
> 
> Well, as a locale hy_AM.ARMSCII-8 is definitely not needed. However, as
> an encoding it's still useful: sometimes I (and probably some other people)
> need to convert some "ancient" documents from ARMSCII-8 to UTF-8.
> 
> I do not think that the removing it will prevent such conversion anyway
> (e.g. with iconv), correct?

Yes iconv will still be able to do such conversion (I will double check)
> 
> Sergey
> 
> P.S. "hy" = Hayastan = Armenia
>