Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:45:44 -0700 From: Sergey Manucharian <sm@ara-ler.com> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org> Cc: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, current@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropping some locales/encodings? Message-ID: <20160301034544.GH52633@dendrobates.araler.com> In-Reply-To: <56D502BD.9020704@freebsd.org> References: <20160229232334.GG84995@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <56D502BD.9020704@freebsd.org>
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Excerpts from Andrey Chernov's message from Tue 01-Mar-16 05:47: > On 01.03.2016 2:23, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > > I can properly generate almost any of the said locales/encodings but a few that > > I would like to remove (provided that unicode version are available) > > > > Here is the list of locales/encodings: > > > > be_BY.CP1251 > > CP1251 is Windows native (single characters mode) and widely used to > represent Cyrillic: Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Belarusian > (i.e. be_BY), Macedonian. IMHO it will be better to not remove it to > make easy handling of native encoded texts comes from Windows. > I agree with Andrey that CP1251 is needed as one of major Cyrillic encodings. Not sure how the locale existence/absence effects that. Definitely nobody uses it as a locale for more than a decade. Sergey
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