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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 1995 02:49:45 +0300 (MSK)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject:   Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP
Message-ID:  <AaP-kWmaW2@ache.dialup.demos.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199510162211.PAA25592@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert at Mon, 16 Oct 1995 15:11:17 -0700 (MST)
References:  <199510162211.PAA25592@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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In message <199510162211.PAA25592@phaeton.artisoft.com> Terry Lambert
    writes:

>> Along the same line, it'd be really convenient if the default chartype
>> table had its right side populated for ISO8859-1 so that broken tools
>> could still manage to do the right thing most of the time.

>My major premise in this whole discussion is that the bogus code in
>crt0.o is a result of trying to correct the C locale deficiencies
>without actually correcting the C locale.

>It is a kludge on a bug, not a bugfix.

Lets consider, how your proposed hack differs from mine:
You plan to force non-locale-aware programs to 8859-1,
it works right for 8859-1 users as exactly matched case,
so for such users my hack == your hack, no diffs exists.

When users are not 8859-1, your hack != my hack, because
you load so-called 'default udefined table' and I load
table which match current charset. Lets consider, what is better
for user, some 'default undefined hack' or code table
which match his charset exactly?


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