From owner-freebsd-audit Sat Jun 2 3:31:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3134F37B424; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 03:31:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ache@nagual.pp.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f52AVgL43329; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 14:31:43 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 14:31:40 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: CHOI Junho Cc: i18n@freebsd.org, audit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2CFR: locale names renaming Message-ID: <20010602143139.A43237@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20010602040851.A34526@nagual.pp.ru> <86ofs7thvy.fsf@gradius.wdb.co.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <86ofs7thvy.fsf@gradius.wdb.co.kr>; from cjh@kr.FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 05:17:53PM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 17:17:53 +0900, CHOI Junho wrote: > > Is backward compatibility preserved? Currently FreeBSD locale > system doesn't permit aliases, so if ko_KR.EUC changed to ko_KR.eucKR > (I definitely agree with it), it can break many application or user > configuration of locale. It is possible (via symlinks) but I don't think it is good idea, even for transition period. If we preserve compatibility, people never change their environment LANG variables, so programs which parse LANG directly will be in trouble since in each and every such programs we need to add both variants. So there is no advantage of using new scheme since old scheme must be coded each time too. We already have too many locale changes in -current to make it is already incompatible with 4.3 locale, so yet one incompatible change don't play role here. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message