Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 22:45:19 +0900 From: Motoyuki Konno <motoyuki@bsdclub.org> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: CHOI Junho <cjh@kr.FreeBSD.ORG>, i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2CFR: locale names renaming Message-ID: <200106021345.f52DjJ218044@sakura.mk.bsdclub.org> References: <20010602040851.A34526@nagual.pp.ru> <86ofs7thvy.fsf@gradius.wdb.co.kr> <20010602143139.A43237@nagual.pp.ru>
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"Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> wrote:
> It is possible (via symlinks) but I don't think it is good idea, even for
> transition period. If we preserve compatibility, people never change their
> environment LANG variables, so programs which parse LANG directly will be
> in trouble since in each and every such programs we need to add both
> variants.
In Japan, many scripts and many programs set LANG environment variable.
For example, see ports/japanese/mozilla-jlp/files/mozilla.{no,}xpg4.
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#!/bin/sh
LANG=ja_JP.EUC; export LANG
cd @PREFIX@/lib/mozilla
exec ./mozilla "$@"
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So, we have to take enough time for transition period.
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