From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 5 10: 6:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F96237B41A; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 10:05:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (marcus@shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g05I4Xv40935; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 13:04:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: HEADSUP: several locale renames were MFCed From: Joe Clarke To: Alexey Zelkin Cc: Makoto Matsushita , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020105192435.A84422@ark.cris.net> References: <20020105183137.A79023@ark.cris.net> <20020106020507J.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20020105192435.A84422@ark.cris.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0 (Preview Release) Date: 05 Jan 2002 13:05:12 -0500 Message-Id: <1010253912.25865.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 12:24, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > hi, > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:05:07AM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > > > phantom> I've just MFCed following several locale renames > > > > Sigh. Japanese locale name, ja_JP.eucJP, and tcsh problem is *not > > yet* solved. Release engineers, why you allow to do that? I cannot > > believe that this change is MFCed; ache, the man who changed the > > locale name in 5-current, what do you think about this MFC? > Sorry, I was not aware of this problem. Will take a look. > Anyway, nothing changed for end-users with EUC -> euc?? rename. > > > Tcsh have a feature that it does set 'dspmbyte' variable > > if and only if locale name is "ja_JP.EUC" (string match is performed) > > or other Chinese, Japanese, and Korean locales. > ja_JP.EUC still present and is a symlink to ja_JP.eucJP (i.e. they're > absolutely identical). > > > phantom> In case if you'll experience any problems in locale specific > > phantom> areas please notice me immidiately. > > > > Immidiately enough? :-) > Yes. > > > phantom> PS: for most of old locale names compatibility shims are > > phantom> present, except DIS_* -> ISO*-15. So, be adviced and switch > > phantom> to ISO8859-15 if you've used DIS_* before. > > > > All shims does nothing to this problem, since tcsh compares current > > LANG variable string and 'ja_JP.EUC' string, yes, just a string match. > Leaving LANG=ja_JP.EUC is enough ? If so, just leave it as is in your > environment until this problem gets fixed. What about other locales (e.g. de_DE.ISO_8859-1)? Will symlinks still exist for backwards compatibility, or are the old locales being wiped clean? The reason I ask is that I just did some ports patches that add the old FreeBSD locales to Mozilla and GDM. I want to know if I have to go back, and repatch things before 4.5-RELEASE. Thanks. Joe > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message