Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 18:34:00 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su> Cc: CVS-commiters@time.cdrom.com, cvs-usrsbin@time.cdrom.com, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/kbdmap - Imported sources Message-ID: <199503241734.SAA05486@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <qMqjjSlGT1@astral.msk.su> References: <199503240052.QAA07302@time.cdrom.com> <RBwWbSlyYE@astral.msk.su> <199503241038.LAA13616@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> <qMqjjSlGT1@astral.msk.su>
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Andrey A. Chernov writes: >>>This program incorrectly use system variable LANG for its own >>>purposes. Valid LANG format is <lang>_<country>.<code_table> >>>or "C", it _never_ contain values as "en" or "de". > >>Njeeet! "en" or "de" are valid (ISO) and common (Hyper-G use it) >>aliases for locale. > >Misunderstanding. "en" & "de" is valid (ISO) as _language_names_ >not as XPG locale names which is currently supported. kbdmap support only languages, not countries or dialects with an army :-) The Language is for the description. english: koi8-r-8x14 Russian koi8-r-8x14 german: koi8-r-8x14 Russisch koi8-r-8x14 russian: koi8-r-8x14 Russki koi8-r-8x14 >Moving english primary to US is Americano-centrism. :-) >What happens, if you have f.e. two code tables for "ru" in one country? >This is exaple from real life. >Where "ru" will ponts in this case? >Then, what happens with two countries with same language, f.e. >French and Canada? Where "fr" will points in this case? Ok, I wrote a function which map fr_CA.ISO8859-1 to 'fr', fr_FR.ISO8859-1 to 'fr', it_CH.ISO8859-1 to 'it' etc. Gruß Wolfram -- http://hyperg.cs.tu-berlin.de:2080/C~wosch
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