Docs (help and the dtinfo guides) are now always built using the
ISO8859-1 locale. To support UTF-8, our docbook needs to be updated
to something from this century, ideally this decade. In addition, a
conversion to XML would also be required as a result. So, until that
happens, use ISO8859-1 for docs.
However, other locale information, like message catalogs, resource
files, and the like are now converted to UTF-8.
All supported languages are now built by default on linux again.
Note, there are still some issues with certain programs appearing not
to use their localized message catalogs properly, while others work
fine.
Also, in order to build these now, you need to make sure you have
installed the DE, ES, FR, and IT locales before building or you will
get failures. On [k]ubuntu, at least, you can install these with the
following commands:
sudo locale-gen de_DE
sudo locale-gen es_ES
sudo locale-gen fr_FR
sudo locale-gen it_IT
Jon Trulson