Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 15:06:46 +1200 (NZST) From: Atom Smasher <atom@smasher.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tr A-Z a-z in locales other than C Message-ID: <1106081505190.2239@smasher> In-Reply-To: <20110607230042.GB16994@stack.nl> References: <20110606224105.GA92410@stack.nl> <1106080945020.2239@smasher> <20110607230042.GB16994@stack.nl>
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On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
>> maybe another option would be modifying tr to recognize other [new]
>> environment variables... TR_LANG, TR_LC_ALL, TR_LC_CTYPE and
>> TR_LC_COLLATE. done that way, things could be set in /etc/make.conf (or
>> sys.mk), not need any patching, and not interfere with other uses of
>> locale.
>
> That would be rather ugly.
>
> If tr a-z A-Z is supposed to be deceiving in some locales, then let it
> remain so unconditionally.
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it can still be as ugly as one wants it to be, and in some ports that
might be fine. but this option would provide a very simple option to reign
in how ugly it is.
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