Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 11:50:03 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nclayton@lehman.com> To: Motoyuki Konno <motoyuki@snipe.rim.or.jp>, Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, kuriyama@sky.rim.or.jp, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-translate@ngo.org.uk, jdp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-tech-jp@jp.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resolution: FDP reorganisation Message-ID: <19990628115003.C15628@lehman.com> In-Reply-To: <199906271240.VAA06437@rei.snipe.rim.or.jp>; from Motoyuki Konno on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 09:40:10PM %2B0900 References: <57461.930305624@zippy.cdrom.com> <199906251220.VAA22552@sakura.snipe.rim.or.jp> <19990625150942.K15628@lehman.com> <199906252311.QAA04505@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19990626014203.B71532@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <199906271240.VAA06437@rei.snipe.rim.or.jp>
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On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 09:40:10PM +0900, Motoyuki Konno wrote: > Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > * How many distinct languages are catered for in that directory? There's > > no way to tell. > > > > * It's incredibly inconsistent. Look at > > > > en_US.utf/ US English, probably > > I think "en" is better. Because English is used in many countries > (U.K., Austraria, New Zealand, etc.). > > > > ja/ Japanese, but which encoding? > > > > ja.JIS/ JIS encoding, so the previous one is probably EUC > > 'ja.JIS' is not needed, I think. If both 'ja' and 'ja.JIS' exists, > FreeBSD users will be confused. OK. So Satoshi was (as far as I can see) holding up the X11R6 locale directory as an example of where things don't need to be explicitly spelled out, and now you're saying that the same directory structure is confusing. I think this is the best example yet of exactly why we should move to a more rationalised directory naming scheme -- confusion such as the above becomes impossible. N -- --+==[ Systems Administrator, Year 2000 Test Lab, Lehman Brothers, Inc. ]==+-- --+==[ 1 Broadgate, London, EC2M 7HA 0171-601-0011 x5514 ]==+-- --+==[ Year 2000 Testing: It's about time. . . ]==+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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