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Date:      Tue, 2 Jul 2002 23:30:47 +0200
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Extra crud in the doc tree
Message-ID:  <20020702233047.B35465@abigail.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020702170932.426a899b.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>; from trhodes@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 05:09:32PM -0400
References:  <20020702170932.426a899b.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 05:09:32PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> Greetings doc people!
> 
> I've been wondering why we have duplicate directories in our tree
> on freefall?  Well, not duplicate, as the difference is only an
> underscore character ``_'' between ISO and the number (ie:
> 
> en_US.ISO8859-1
> en_US.ISO_8859-1)

It's old locale names scheme. Read for example 20020105 entry in
UPDATING.

> 
> Should these be removed?  Can these be removed?  How high is up?
>

Maybe :)

Btw European locales, *.ISO8859-1, for countries using Euro character
should be renamed/changed to *.ISO8859-15
But it'd be a big change in all locales system...

Marc

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