From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 7 8:28:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC6337B405; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:28:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es (v-ger [158.227.6.51]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g07GSEb03394; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:28:14 +0100 (MET) Received: (from jose@localhost) by v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g07GSQv00501; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:28:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jose) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:28:26 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" To: Murray Stokely Cc: phantom@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please backout the recent locale change Message-ID: <20020107172825.E246@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> References: <20020106192810.E2381@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020106192810.E2381@windriver.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 07:28:10PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 07:28:10PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > This commit was not approved (though I do realize there was a > miscommunication involved), nor would it have been approved under any > circumstances during the freeze. The locale name change from *.DIS_8859-15 to *.ISO8859-15 is very useful for european people, especially for residents in the eurozone. It solves some compatibility issues with XFree86, so permitting us typing and displaying the euro currency symbol on X11 applications without fiddling with the XFree86's locales (and remember that the euro became real for 300+ million european citizens on January 1st, 2002). Just one suggestion: couldn't the new locale names go into RC1 and, if there are serious issues, then back them out before RC2? (I am convinced that 4.5-RC2 will exist ;-) ). My 0,02 ¤, ^------ ISO 8859-15 euro currency symbol ;-) JMA -- ****** Jose M. Alcaide // jose@we.lc.ehu.es // jmas@FreeBSD.org ****** ** "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message