Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 01:25:51 +0900 (JST) From: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org> To: motoyuki@bsdclub.org Cc: ache@nagual.pp.ru, cjh@kr.FreeBSD.ORG, i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2CFR: locale names renaming Message-ID: <20010603.012551.08401034.ume@mahoroba.org> In-Reply-To: <200106021345.f52DjJ218044@sakura.mk.bsdclub.org> References: <86ofs7thvy.fsf@gradius.wdb.co.kr> <20010602143139.A43237@nagual.pp.ru> <200106021345.f52DjJ218044@sakura.mk.bsdclub.org>
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>>>>> On Sat, 02 Jun 2001 22:45:19 +0900
>>>>> Motoyuki Konno <motoyuki@bsdclub.org> said:
motoyuki> "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.
motoyuki> In Japan, many scripts and many programs set LANG environment variable.
motoyuki> For example, see ports/japanese/mozilla-jlp/files/mozilla.{no,}xpg4.
Changing to use ja_JP.eucJP instead of ja_JP.EUC is good thing.
However, ja_JP.EUC is widely deployed and we Japanese have been using
ja_JP.EUC for a long time. Cannot we have alias to former ja_JP.EUC?
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