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Date:      Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:36:15 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r290637 - head/lib/libc/locale
Message-ID:  <20151110133615.GL10134@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <5641EF26.8060600@freebsd.org>
References:  <201511100811.tAA8BR0R034338@repo.freebsd.org> <5641E7B4.2070508@freebsd.org> <20151110130430.GK10134@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <5641EF26.8060600@freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 04:20:38PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On 10.11.2015 16:04, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 03:48:52PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> >> On 10.11.2015 11:11, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> >>> Author: bapt
> >>> Date: Tue Nov 10 08:11:27 2015
> >>> New Revision: 290637
> >>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/290637
> >>>
> >>> Log:
> >>>   return "US-ASCII" instead of "POSIX" for "C" and "POSIX" locales
> >>>   as it used to be in previous version of the locales. Returning
> >>>   "POSIX" has too many fallouts.
> >>
> >> You can return "ANSI_X3.4-1968" (another name of "US-ASCII") to be
> >> different with real US-ASCII. It is what glibc returns for C/POSIX
> >> locale and most ports expected, being linux-oriented.
> >>
> > I thought about it, but in the end it is probably safer for now that nl=
_langinfo
> > return US-ASCII as it did in the past, to reduce breakage with FreeBSD =
only code
> > that maybe be existing ou there.
>=20
> All FreeBSD code I know never check locale this way. IMHO probability of
> potential danger to meet some linux-oriented port with this check is
> much much higher than to meet similar FreeBSD only code in the wild. In
> any case, changing collate order from A-Za-z to aA-zZ we do just now
> have much higher probability to break unknown FreeBSD only code, so one
> breaking change can go with other one together.
>=20
That is true, except that the new collation thing is invalidated as soon as=
 you
set LC_COLLATE=3DC which bring your back to A-Za-z. So you have a workaroun=
d while
changing the return value of nl_langinfo() is not workaroundable.

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