Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:00:50 +0300 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: ru@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: i18n@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Documenting composite LC_ALL locale, anyone? Message-ID: <20040201120050.GA41545@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20040201104146.GF57540@FreeBSD.org.ua> References: <200401312329.i0VNTKCH067740@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040201093646.GD57540@FreeBSD.org.ua> <20040201094001.GA40180@nagual.pp.ru> <20040201104146.GF57540@FreeBSD.org.ua>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 12:41:46PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > Perhaps someone from the documentation project could take care of > documenting that? A good start would be the setlocale(3) manpage > from Solaris 9, when it talks about composite locale for LC_ALL, > but not enough: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=setlocale&manpath=SunOS%205.9 BTW, there is a problem in "/"-form historycally implemented by BSD & some others - it leads to POSIX violation. POSIX allows "/"es in the locale variable name which means full path to file when started with "/". When such names returned as combined composite separated with "/", there is too many "/"es to parse back. It means that separator must be not valid filesystem character, which is impossible. So, whole composite string should be redesigned to something like: 2 bytes - character count of next string next string 2 bytes next string ... -- Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBQBzqcuJgpPLZnQjrAQFd/gP/epAqvI4vSauzoFF8ENS7oJIqEzLpZmmw CDDfcIxOP3PhoxipY6otDlQO2gg8Y1zhr2d9C3nkbYaUHZwzv/vjY5BcETtcs5mn YHcKB+JMuicVsF4CIfvwbfyaqOT7Gvm6I8svXvz8NEhiVXu7gOrQcBlYVUBn6uwE FDHRRW/NuUU= =CGaB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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