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Date:      Sun, 3 Sep 2000 21:04:24 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Alexander Voropay <a.voropay@globalone.ru>, i18n@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request for review: locale aliases support for libc
Message-ID:  <20000903210424.A46125@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20000903205754.A45839@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 08:57:54PM %2B0400
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On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 08:57:54PM +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 06:21:50PM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> > > I can't imagine situation that application need to know precisely expanded
> > > locale form.
> > 
> > localization of man related stuff, yeah ? :)
> > Locale(1) ? (coming soon)
> 
> This is too system-dependend to be called applications, I mean more
> userland applications. In the system-dependent case non-standard function
> can be introduced to expand aliases.

Moreover, maybe something like '/usr/sbin/expand_locale_alias' required to
allow system-dependend shell or perl processing needed instead of simple
taking LANG env. var in non-aliases case.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nagual.pp.ru>
http://ache.pp.ru/


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