From owner-freebsd-doc Sun May 16 6: 6:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1DBF152F3 for ; Sun, 16 May 1999 06:05:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) id NAA75078; Sun, 16 May 1999 13:37:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 13:37:19 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Jun Kuriyama Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG, "Andrey A. Chernov" , ru-freebsd-doc@freebsd.ru, freebsd-translate@ngo.org.uk, hanai@jp.freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RU-DOC] FDP Directory Reorganization Message-ID: <19990516133719.E62097@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990514204302.B43389@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990515222516E.k-horik@yk.rim.or.jp> <19990515174717.A656@nagual.pp.ru> <19990516000424.48809@panke.de.freebsd.org> <19990516121203.C62097@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <373EB660.A6706EC5@sky.rim.or.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <373EB660.A6706EC5@sky.rim.or.jp>; from Jun Kuriyama on Sun, May 16, 1999 at 09:13:20PM +0900 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 09:13:20PM +0900, Jun Kuriyama wrote: > Nik Clayton wrote: > > People seem to be agreeing that . is the way to go, and > > I'm happy to follow that, particularly based on the contents of > > /usr/share/locale. > > Of course, when we specify some localized environment, is not > enough, . is better thing. > > But Japanese encodings such as EUC-JP, Shift_JIS and JIS are easily > machine-convertable. I don't know of such thing about Chinese > encodings. OK. All this means is that we only have one Japanese directory, ja.EUC. Just because the Japanese (or any other language) only has one encoding at the moment doesn't mean that we don't need to specify the encoding. We do, because at some point in the future the "default" is going to change, and everything that assumes one default is going to get it wrong. Basically, I don't want some directories to contain versions for different encodings, and others just to assume one encoding. We either let all languages be represented with multiple encodings, or we have one encoding per language, and leave it at that. The latter choice is too restrictive, so we need to let every language be represented with different encodings. Even if some (most) of those languages are currently only represented with one encoding. > So we should not maintain three "contently same but different encoding" > texts in CVS repository. It is waste of disk space and human resource. 100% agreed. N -- There's some milk in the fridge about to go off. . . and there it goes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message