From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 11 5: 1:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E8637B44B for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 05:01:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ache@nagual.pp.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5BC1BZ34358; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:01:11 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:01:09 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: locale names reorganization Message-ID: <20010611160108.A34164@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20010610163853.A1166@nagual.pp.ru> <200106101537.f5AFavo33433@mail.uic-in.net> <200106102136.f5ALawu94200@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20010611020547.A1379@nagual.pp.ru> <20010611082525.F94133@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010611082525.F94133@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from j@uriah.heep.sax.de on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 08:25:25AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 08:25:25 +0200, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > As Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > > > And, please also post a list of old vs. new names. Not all of us > > > follow the i18n list. > > > > *.ASCII -> *.US-ASCII > > *.ISO_* -> *.ISO* > > ja_JP.EUC -> ja_JP.eucJP > > ko_KR.EUC -> ko_KR.eucKR > > zh_CN.EUC -> zh_CN.eucCN > > Thanks. I wish there would also be `shortcut names', any other system > i've been working with for example provides a locale named `de_DE' so > you don't have to type `de_DE.ISO8859-1' all day. FreeBSD is the only > (known to me) exception. (Before anybody's arguing, i don't care Short locale names dramatically increase program efforts to guess locale in each program which tries to deal with it directly, since suppose that program have the same default assumption (from where?) for missing information. If you need to type them - better make shell variables with short names. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message