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Date:      Mon, 28 Jun 1999 11:52:54 +0100
From:      Nik Clayton <nclayton@lehman.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>, Motoyuki Konno <motoyuki@snipe.rim.or.jp>
Cc:        jdp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-translate@ngo.org.uk, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@sky.rim.or.jp>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Subject:   Re: Resolution: FDP reorganisation
Message-ID:  <19990628115254.E15628@lehman.com>
In-Reply-To: <199906280427.AAA29177@smtp4.erols.com>; from John Baldwin on Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 12:27:21AM -0400
References:  <199906251220.VAA22552@sakura.snipe.rim.or.jp> <199906280427.AAA29177@smtp4.erols.com>

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On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 12:27:21AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > A.  Why 'ja' is better than 'ja.*'
> > ----------------------------------
> 
> No offense, but your arguments apply to a specific case, i.e. "ja", and Nik is
> trying to setup a generic structure that will be easily extensible and
> consistent.  That is why "en" is changing to "en_US.iso-8859-1" or something
> similar.  We understand that it's just bit flipping to do JIS -> SJIS -> EUC,
> but please understand that Nik is proposing a system that is bigger than the
> doc/ja tree.  It is the doc/ tree.  Also, the end user will still have
> /usr/share/man/ja and /usr/share/doc/ja.. this is only for the CVS repository. 
> Please try to see the big picture here instead of just looking at the "ja"
> stuff.  Everyone else has to adjust to this change, too.

Thank God for that.  Someone else gets it :-)

Cheers John,

N
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