Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 10:54:50 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg> Cc: Sergey Manucharian <sm@ara-ler.com>, Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropping some locales/encodings? Message-ID: <20160301095450.GD31877@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <E991335D-9EA9-40B4-9CCE-4DC3CCA89890@digsys.bg> References: <20160229232334.GG84995@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <56D502BD.9020704@freebsd.org> <20160301034544.GH52633@dendrobates.araler.com> <E991335D-9EA9-40B4-9CCE-4DC3CCA89890@digsys.bg>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 10:58:37AM +0200, Daniel Kalchev wrote: > > > On 1.03.2016 г., at 5:45, Sergey Manucharian <sm@ara-ler.com> wrote: > > > > Excerpts from Andrey Chernov's message from Tue 01-Mar-16 05:47: > >> On 01.03.2016 2:23, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > >>> > >>> I can properly generate almost any of the said locales/encodings but a few that > >>> I would like to remove (provided that unicode version are available) > >>> > >>> Here is the list of locales/encodings: > >>> > >>> be_BY.CP1251 > >> > >> CP1251 is Windows native (single characters mode) and widely used to > >> represent Cyrillic: Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Belarusian > >> (i.e. be_BY), Macedonian. IMHO it will be better to not remove it to > >> make easy handling of native encoded texts comes from Windows. > >> > > > > I agree with Andrey that CP1251 is needed as one of major Cyrillic > > encodings. > > > > Not sure how the locale existence/absence effects that. Definitely nobody > > uses it as a locale for more than a decade. > > > > I use daily bg_BG.CP1251 on a lot of workstations, primarily to handle old text documents and source code that contains pre-UTF text. I could imagine similar use case for be_BY.CP1251. > > What benefit does it bring to remove an already existing locale? The benefit is the fact we have no source for those and collation for one are wrong for those. (We have added proper collation support in head). But given the feedback I got I will provide them as static (aka non evolving anymore) while others would get refreshed so no locales will be lost and that will allow us to continue refreshing others. Best regards, Bapt [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJW1WbOAAoJEGOJi9zxtz5ax6IP/2gKSdN3AUAwtiYlpgEzYwa+ YvmqWV+r62pQB8QxHJ1EvlgTzaCP5p0nnbC31kAwJ47k6FYKhgsBUXhW6cyfsZhu lJXh5+Ellpu2ITYq/Ob4R+hIzOS3ZlmdIL0XkcSWbCsGuVbM9DzDRqqB4n9MZWYh F8fX1EG4wWAr8eABumzgr03klFU+sOR1QROCavNWPULsnn//WyIKuk8eN2qkbzu+ 6my7MrX7v+Snb6AERjRG0x2NZtUrNfvv2zNurQBxRKMOkvjPhMKxJ7+sG8RLozUw FlyTkRKRPqWa06wh/Xp6R5m3jFpfPs/8wxGAAB3YbxB1K+ovGdNoX7+AzNtdzXTC YhTcDppCXllZauEHYiHclBezznyj37BXOulDpfFtrQmkZ4eXROC/9i1afAZBon4i ++9QOYwXE36NRhMzBUAd1T8qaJtYcdgRdYpwYEgDq8pzxpC55wqX1eX+S2jQ+vj6 3bQA6g0KzquB1tAneL+u/Szyajx0p9oMBKPx23mJlBmJy4VTTcKElzDbyu2tsqKv 8DDqqy6K8ka5x+6fTdbdwECCMYF6Qcd6YMc97R/ZPMjzFothn1RugUNdEpALCwzv P8GRHgfTa4BMfcZBuFRY249YqTFbZ0sHzwvy/PZrrXXi65c/N2v88P9kMGD5zWru I8ZtTBXeA3K+7s4w4F34 =w4w9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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