Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:08:33 -0800 From: Arun Sharma <arun@sharma-home.net> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, bsd-india@sharmas.dhs.org Subject: Re: New locale: hi_IN.ISCII Message-ID: <20011122160833.A7277@sharma-home.net> In-Reply-To: <20011122231222.GA66927@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 02:12:23AM %2B0300 References: <20011120144700.GA34211@nagual.pp.ru> <20011122044135.2F60737B405@hub.freebsd.org> <20011122231222.GA66927@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 02:12:23AM +0300, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > 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. XFree86 uses: hi: hi_IN.ISCII-DEV hi_IN: hi_IN.ISCII-DEV hi_IN.isciidev: hi_IN.ISCII-DEV http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/nls/locale.alias?rev=1.48&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Linux uses (from locales-hi RPM): $ ls -d /usr/share/locale/hi_IN.* /usr/share/locale/hi_IN.ISCII-DEV/ /usr/share/locale/hi_IN.UTF-8/ UTF-8 will be a completely new encoding and I think we should support both. 1. People who need to view multiple Indian language fonts simultaneously will use UTF-8. 2. People who want to read a document written in one Indian language, using other language fonts (it may or may not make sense, but they can still read it), will use ISCII. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message
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