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Date:      Fri, 23 Nov 2001 02:12:23 +0300
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Arun Sharma <arun@sharma-home.net>, i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, bsd-india@sharmas.dhs.org
Subject:   Re: New locale: hi_IN.ISCII
Message-ID:  <20011122231222.GA66927@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20011122044135.2F60737B405@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <20011120144700.GA34211@nagual.pp.ru> <20011122044135.2F60737B405@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 20:41:35 -0800, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> 
> 
> Andrey,
> 
> FYI, I'm verifying this patch (Hindi locale).  
> 
> I've a question about FreeBSD's locale naming conventions: AFAIK the
> official name of the `ISCII' encoding is `IS13194' (Indian Standard 13194).
> So should the locale be named `hi_IN.IS13194'?

We should use most compatible with X11 name. First look at X11 or XFree86,
if some name exist there, we should use it. The second one is Linux (as
most likely merge to X11 candidate), etc.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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