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Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 20:18:10 +0200
From: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, ache@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: HEADSUP: several locale renames were MFCed
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hi,

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 08:09:14PM +0200, Alexey Zelkin wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> Yes. Compatibility preserved for everything except DIS_* family.

To be absolutely correct there's also one more point for which compatibility
was not preserved -- ru_SU.* locales. They were supposed to be removed
long time ago, but was just forgotten. Everybody should be forced to use
ru_RU.* family instead


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