Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:41:08 -0700 From: Sergey Manucharian <sm@ara-ler.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropping some locales/encodings? Message-ID: <20160301034108.GG52633@dendrobates.araler.com> In-Reply-To: <20160229232334.GG84995@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <20160229232334.GG84995@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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Excerpts from Baptiste Daroussin's message from Tue 01-Mar-16 00:23: > > I would like to remove (provided that unicode version are available) > > Here is the list of locales/encodings: > > be_BY.CP1251 > be_BY.CP1131 > hi_IN.ISCII-DEV > hy_AM.ARMSCII-8 > zh_HK.Big5HKSCS > > Provided that those should be covered by respectively: > be_BY.ISO8859-5 be_BY.UTF-8 > hi_IN.UTF-8 > hy_AM.UTF-8 > zh_HK.UTF-8 zh_Hans_HK.UTF-8 > > Anyone has a strong opinion against this removal? > Well, as a locale hy_AM.ARMSCII-8 is definitely not needed. However, as an encoding it's still useful: sometimes I (and probably some other people) need to convert some "ancient" documents from ARMSCII-8 to UTF-8. I do not think that the removing it will prevent such conversion anyway (e.g. with iconv), correct? Sergey P.S. "hy" = Hayastan = Armenia
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