Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 01:14:30 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, motoyuki@snipe.rim.or.jp, nclayton@lehman.com, kuriyama@sky.rim.or.jp, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-translate@ngo.org.uk, jdp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-tech-jp@jp.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resolution: FDP reorganisation Message-ID: <19990626011430.A71532@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <199906252232.PAA04362@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami on Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 03:32:05PM -0700 References: <67622.930333696@zippy.cdrom.com> <199906252232.PAA04362@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 03:32:05PM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
> That said, *if* we need them all to look uniform, I propose we use
> <lang><_territory> (as I said before). None of the examples Nik
> stated show why we need the <.codeset> part.
Unicode.
ja_JP.eucJP
ja_JP.unicode[1]
en_US.iso-8859-1
en_US.unicode
zh_TW.Big5
zh_CN.EUC
zh_TW.unicode
zh_CN.unicode
Some of you might consider Unicode a bit of a strawman argument, because
it's a nebulous thing that's somewhere off in FreeBSD's future. So I'll
also mention that
ru_SU.CP866
ru_SU.KOI8-R
doesn't fit in to your scheme. There are probably others as well, but
it's 1:12 am, and I'm not going to hunt for them right now.
N
[1] $DEITY alone knows what the codeset name will be, so I'm guessing. And
yes, there will certainly be some character sets where the unicode
code points and the code points in one of the other encodings coincide.
In situations like this, .unicode (or whatever) acts effectively as an
alias for the other encoding (or vice versa).
Murphy's law dictates that there will be at least one language encoding
for which this won't hold true. So I'm covering that base now as well,
just in case.
--
[intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
-- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
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