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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2007-06-03 20:59:35 +0000
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2009-06-23 12:14:53 +0200
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@@ -121,9 +121,11 @@ which languages are allowed.
@node Using This Package
@section Using This Package
-@c --
-@c FIXME: rewrite to document the aliases.
-@c --
+@c Note: We don't document the locale aliases, because they are less and less
+@c used - locale.alias contains not a single UTF-8 locale and still lists
+@c ISO-8859-1 for countries which have long adopted the Euro and switched to
+@c ISO-8859-15.
+@c
As a user, if your language has been installed for this package, you
only have to set the @code{LANG} environment variable to the appropriate
@samp{@var{ll}_@var{CC}} combination. Here @samp{@var{ll}} is an