Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 13:46:57 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org> Cc: John Marino <dragonflybsd@marino.st>, NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-testing@freebsd.org" <testing@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Need help fixing failing locale tests Message-ID: <20151115124656.GB93991@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <56487973.5070803@freebsd.org> References: <CAG=rPVc1t2q_MR99iyWYfy4xrCy==KA1yT=EAaa2twiHoC=zcA@mail.gmail.com> <CAG=rPVfK6ZyWJhtuBihmj%2BWNp94auCJ3kDqoQm-ygXNpiLeatA@mail.gmail.com> <69242BD8-9010-47F0-9706-BE206376ECEA@gmail.com> <289892B6-EACE-4BDA-B838-D3DC750319DE@gmail.com> <56482FA9.2010803@marino.st> <56487973.5070803@freebsd.org>
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--oLBj+sq0vYjzfsbl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 03:24:19PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote: > On 15.11.2015 10:09, John Marino wrote: > > We (DragonFly) didn't just update locales. We took the opportunity to > > do spring cleaning. We didn't want to be as drastic as OpenBSD which > > removed all encodings except for C/POSIX and UTF, but we did remove > > several locales intentionally. > >=20 > > In the case of ISO8859-1: > > All ISO8859-* is basically obsolete. > > In western Europe, if somebody wants ISO-8859, they want ISO8859-15, not > > ISO8859-1. They are similar, but the former is tailored for western > > europe with "Euro" currency and 9 other symbols. It comes at the > > expense of removing 10 characters from ISO8859-1. 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 droppe= d. >=20 > ISO8859-1 locales are legacy even if obsoleted in modern world (I agree > with that). Lots of ports (even at configure stage!) have checks for > them. Since we generate locales from CLDR now, it will be no cost to > bring all 8859-1 back to not violate POLA and not fix every failing port. >=20 Exp-run have been made and no ports were failing with the removed locales. Best regards, Bapt --oLBj+sq0vYjzfsbl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlZIfsAACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EwtCQCfbQAJaHoJm7B/sdIw0/Yq8ynh KH8AoLEZQSuaZdgiRLrMWSIPrGEOHusY =ZjvY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oLBj+sq0vYjzfsbl--
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