From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 11 10:05:43 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA06278 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 10:05:43 -0800 Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [144.206.136.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA06272 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 10:05:41 -0800 Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA08863 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Wed, 11 Jan 1995 20:57:19 +0300 Received: by elvisti.kiev.ua (uumail/ache) id AA05644; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 18:43:15 +0200 Received: from office.elvisti.kiev.ua (office.elvisti.kiev.ua [193.125.28.33]) by spider2.elvisti.kiev.ua (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA28841; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 18:33:20 +0200 Received: (from stesin@localhost) by office.elvisti.kiev.ua (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA29660; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 18:33:19 +0200 From: "Andrew V. Stesin" Message-Id: <199501111633.SAA29660@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> Subject: Re: Localization stuff? To: ache%astral.msk.su@xenix.elvisti.kiev.ua Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 18:33:18 +0200 (EET) Cc: freebsd-hackers%freebsd.org@xenix.elvisti.kiev.ua In-Reply-To: from "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" at Jan 11, 95 03:48:37 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha5] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1267 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello ache, after seeing your message about FreeBSD localization issues, we here (me and my collegue Alex Tatmanjants ) decided to make an attempt of adding at least LC_COLLATE localization part to the current code. We are planning: 1. Obtaining the localization stuff from the latest FreeBSD-2 snapshot; 2. Making it to work under our 1.1.5 systems (hove it will do out of the box); 3. Adding the LC_COLLATE functionality to the code; 4. Submitting the results to the main source tree. We need the guidelines of someone from FreeBSD team for doing this. The questions are: What kind of functionality should be implemented with respect to *BSD traditions and spirit? I mean exactly the following: -- should it be the reimplementation of SunOS-4 locale? -- or straightforvard port of Linux stuff (c) Saukh? -- or maybe BSDi folks are going to provide an implementation in their new release and though it will be wise to stay compatible with them? -- or what will you suggest? We need a short pointer to the tools which are (or must be?) used for playing with locale descriptions (what are they? there aren't any in 1.1.5). -- With best wishes -- Andrew Stesin, Elvisti.Kiev.UA sysadmin.