Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 23:12:36 +0000 From: Nuno Teixeira <nunotex@pt-quorum.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please backout the recent locale change Message-ID: <20020107231236.GB332@gw.tex.bogus> In-Reply-To: <20020107172825.E246@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> References: <20020106192810.E2381@windriver.com> <20020107172825.E246@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es>
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:28:26PM +0100, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: | 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 ** Hi, Yes, you right. I'm from Portugal and I have already started to use pt_PT.ISO8859-15 on my 4.5-PRERELEASE (Sun Jan 6 03:59:29 WET 2002). At console all works very well with Euro currency and at X11 almost all programs respect Euro. So far I didn't found any problems with ISO 8859-15. Thanks, -- Nuno Teixeira pt-quorum.com /* PGP Public Key: http://www.pt-quorum.com/pgp/nunoteixeira.asc Key fingerprint: 8C2C B364 D4DC 0C92 56F5 CE6F 8F07 720A 63A0 4FC7 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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