Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 10:58:37 +0200 From: Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg> To: Sergey Manucharian <sm@ara-ler.com> Cc: Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, current@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropping some locales/encodings? Message-ID: <E991335D-9EA9-40B4-9CCE-4DC3CCA89890@digsys.bg> In-Reply-To: <20160301034544.GH52633@dendrobates.araler.com> References: <20160229232334.GG84995@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <56D502BD.9020704@freebsd.org> <20160301034544.GH52633@dendrobates.araler.com>
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> On 1.03.2016 =D0=B3., at 5:45, Sergey Manucharian <sm@ara-ler.com> = wrote: >=20 > Excerpts from Andrey Chernov's message from Tue 01-Mar-16 05:47: >> On 01.03.2016 2:23, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >>>=20 >>> 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) >>>=20 >>> Here is the list of locales/encodings: >>>=20 >>> be_BY.CP1251 >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >=20 > I agree with Andrey that CP1251 is needed as one of major Cyrillic > encodings. >=20 > Not sure how the locale existence/absence effects that. Definitely = nobody > uses it as a locale for more than a decade. >=20 I use daily bg_BG.CP1251 on a lot of workstations, primarily to handle = old text documents and source code that contains pre-UTF text. I could = imagine similar use case for be_BY.CP1251. What benefit does it bring to remove an already existing locale? Daniel=
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