From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Tue Mar 1 09:26:00 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0B2AABFCC0 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:26:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daniel@digsys.bg) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E74E1529 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:26:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daniel@digsys.bg) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 9B513ABFCBF; Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:26:00 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD2BABFCBD; Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:26:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daniel@digsys.bg) Received: from smtp-sofia.digsys.bg (smtp-sofia.digsys.bg [193.68.21.123]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp-sofia.digsys.bg", Issuer "Digital Systems Operational CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0898F1528; Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:25:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daniel@digsys.bg) Received: from [193.68.6.100] ([193.68.6.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-sofia.digsys.bg (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id u218wY2o086782 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 1 Mar 2016 10:58:35 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from daniel@digsys.bg) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.2 \(3112\)) Subject: Re: Dropping some locales/encodings? From: Daniel Kalchev In-Reply-To: <20160301034544.GH52633@dendrobates.araler.com> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 10:58:37 +0200 Cc: Andrey Chernov , Baptiste Daroussin , current@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20160229232334.GG84995@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <56D502BD.9020704@freebsd.org> <20160301034544.GH52633@dendrobates.araler.com> To: Sergey Manucharian X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3112) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 09:26:00 -0000 > On 1.03.2016 =D0=B3., at 5:45, Sergey Manucharian = wrote: >=20 > Excerpts from Andrey Chernov's message from Tue 01-Mar-16 05:47: >> On 01.03.2016 2:23, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >>>=20 >>> I can properly generate almost any of the said locales/encodings but = a few that >>> I would like to remove (provided that unicode version are available) >>>=20 >>> Here is the list of locales/encodings: >>>=20 >>> be_BY.CP1251 >>=20 >> CP1251 is Windows native (single characters mode) and widely used to >> represent Cyrillic: Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, = Belarusian >> (i.e. be_BY), Macedonian. IMHO it will be better to not remove it to >> make easy handling of native encoded texts comes from Windows. >>=20 >=20 > I agree with Andrey that CP1251 is needed as one of major Cyrillic > encodings. >=20 > Not sure how the locale existence/absence effects that. Definitely = nobody > uses it as a locale for more than a decade. >=20 I use daily bg_BG.CP1251 on a lot of workstations, primarily to handle = old text documents and source code that contains pre-UTF text. I could = imagine similar use case for be_BY.CP1251. What benefit does it bring to remove an already existing locale? Daniel=