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Date:      Sat, 5 Jan 2002 19:24:35 +0200
From:      Alexey Zelkin <phantom@freebsd.org>
To:        Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: several locale renames were MFCed
Message-ID:  <20020105192435.A84422@ark.cris.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020106020507J.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>; from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org on Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:05:07AM %2B0900
References:  <20020105183137.A79023@ark.cris.net> <20020106020507J.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>

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hi,

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:05:07AM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote:
 
> phantom> I've just MFCed following several locale renames
> 
> Sigh.  Japanese locale name, ja_JP.eucJP, and tcsh problem is *not
> yet* solved.  Release engineers, why you allow to do that?  I cannot
> believe that this change is MFCed; ache, the man who changed the
> locale name in 5-current, what do you think about this MFC?
Sorry, I was not aware of this problem. Will take a look.
Anyway, nothing changed for end-users with EUC -> euc?? rename.

> Tcsh have a feature that it does set 'dspmbyte' variable
> if and only if locale name is "ja_JP.EUC" (string match is performed)
> or other Chinese, Japanese, and Korean locales.
ja_JP.EUC still present and is a symlink to ja_JP.eucJP (i.e. they're
absolutely identical).

> phantom> In case if you'll experience any problems in locale specific
> phantom> areas please notice me immidiately.
> 
> Immidiately enough? :-)
Yes.

> phantom> PS: for most of old locale names compatibility shims are
> phantom> present, except DIS_* -> ISO*-15. So, be adviced and switch
> phantom> to ISO8859-15 if you've used DIS_* before.
> 
> All shims does nothing to this problem, since tcsh compares current
> LANG variable string and 'ja_JP.EUC' string, yes, just a string match.
Leaving LANG=ja_JP.EUC is enough ? If so, just leave it as is in your
environment until this problem gets fixed.


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