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Date:      Sun, 15 Nov 2015 13:42:31 +0100 (CET)
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        ache@freebsd.org
Cc:        dragonflybsd@marino.st, yaneurabeya@gmail.com, rodrigc@FreeBSD.org, bapt@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, testing@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Need help fixing failing locale tests
Message-ID:  <20151115.134231.74704981.sthaug@nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: <56487C96.40403@freebsd.org>
References:  <56482FA9.2010803@marino.st> <56487973.5070803@freebsd.org> <56487C96.40403@freebsd.org>

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> >> There's also a common
> >> problem that users view -15 documents with -1 accidently.  So there was
> >> a conscience decision to have either ISO8859-1 or ISO8859-15 but not
> >> both.  For western Europe this means the ISO8859-1 versions were dropped.
> 
> It is pure user problem choosing its own locale (self footshooting), it
> not leads to program build failures (like configure checks) or tests
> failures etc. BTW, linux keeps 8859-1 locales.

I see no good reason whatsoever to drop ISO8859-1.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no



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