Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 16:02:08 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: "T.SHIOZAKI" <tshiozak@astec.co.jp> Cc: i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, keichii@FreeBSD.ORG, bsd-locale@hauN.org Subject: Re: wchar.h / Citrus import Message-ID: <20010515160205.A13868@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20010515.204937.39033143.tshiozak@astec.co.jp>; from tshiozak@astec.co.jp on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:49:37PM %2B0900 References: <20010515044454.A6122@nagual.pp.ru> <20010514203700.A16280@peorth.iteration.net> <20010515114142.A9263@nagual.pp.ru> <20010515.204937.39033143.tshiozak@astec.co.jp>
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On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 20:49:37 +0900, T.SHIOZAKI wrote: > > BTW, is RUNE_MAGIC format really changed? > > If not, RUNE_MAGIC redefinition is wrong. We are not NetBSD. > > This change is to keep /usr/share machine-independent. In that case we lose backward compatibility with old programs. Personally I not object, but in case we do this, 1) there is no needs to keep backward compatible placeholders in _rune* structures. 2) ntohl/htonl data conversion stuff from NetBSD should be activated (currently it is not). > 1. Naming convention > Just FYI, NetBSD locale names is bacically following to > the primary name of X Window System locale, > e.g. en_US.ISO8859-1, ja_JP.eucJP, ko_KR.eucKR... > But, I think we need not to change the names already existing in FreeBSD. X11 names are non-standard, there is no such names in IANA registry. Lets not repeat mistakes of others. > 4. IANA charset names vs. locale charset names > I think locale charset names should be used for locale name only, > except iconv_open(3) should accept both namespaces. No. There are standard rules how to build locale name from the language, territory and codeset. All three components are expected to follow standards, including codeset. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message
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