Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 10:54:50 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg> Cc: Sergey Manucharian <sm@ara-ler.com>, Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropping some locales/encodings? Message-ID: <20160301095450.GD31877@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <E991335D-9EA9-40B4-9CCE-4DC3CCA89890@digsys.bg> References: <20160229232334.GG84995@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <56D502BD.9020704@freebsd.org> <20160301034544.GH52633@dendrobates.araler.com> <E991335D-9EA9-40B4-9CCE-4DC3CCA89890@digsys.bg>
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--zS7rBR6csb6tI2e1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 10:58:37AM +0200, Daniel Kalchev wrote: >=20 > > On 1.03.2016 =D0=B3., at 5:45, Sergey Manucharian <sm@ara-ler.com> wrot= e: > >=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 nobo= dy > > uses it as a locale for more than a decade. > >=20 >=20 > I use daily bg_BG.CP1251 on a lot of workstations, primarily to handle ol= d text documents and source code that contains pre-UTF text. I could imagin= e similar use case for be_BY.CP1251. >=20 > What benefit does it bring to remove an already existing locale? The benefit is the fact we have no source for those and collation for one a= re wrong for those. (We have added proper collation support in head). But given the feedback I got I will provide them as static (aka non evolving anymore) while others would get refreshed so no locales will be lost and th= at will allow us to continue refreshing others. Best regards, Bapt --zS7rBR6csb6tI2e1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJW1WbOAAoJEGOJi9zxtz5ax6IP/2gKSdN3AUAwtiYlpgEzYwa+ YvmqWV+r62pQB8QxHJ1EvlgTzaCP5p0nnbC31kAwJ47k6FYKhgsBUXhW6cyfsZhu lJXh5+Ellpu2ITYq/Ob4R+hIzOS3ZlmdIL0XkcSWbCsGuVbM9DzDRqqB4n9MZWYh F8fX1EG4wWAr8eABumzgr03klFU+sOR1QROCavNWPULsnn//WyIKuk8eN2qkbzu+ 6my7MrX7v+Snb6AERjRG0x2NZtUrNfvv2zNurQBxRKMOkvjPhMKxJ7+sG8RLozUw FlyTkRKRPqWa06wh/Xp6R5m3jFpfPs/8wxGAAB3YbxB1K+ovGdNoX7+AzNtdzXTC YhTcDppCXllZauEHYiHclBezznyj37BXOulDpfFtrQmkZ4eXROC/9i1afAZBon4i ++9QOYwXE36NRhMzBUAd1T8qaJtYcdgRdYpwYEgDq8pzxpC55wqX1eX+S2jQ+vj6 3bQA6g0KzquB1tAneL+u/Szyajx0p9oMBKPx23mJlBmJy4VTTcKElzDbyu2tsqKv 8DDqqy6K8ka5x+6fTdbdwECCMYF6Qcd6YMc97R/ZPMjzFothn1RugUNdEpALCwzv P8GRHgfTa4BMfcZBuFRY249YqTFbZ0sHzwvy/PZrrXXi65c/N2v88P9kMGD5zWru I8ZtTBXeA3K+7s4w4F34 =w4w9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zS7rBR6csb6tI2e1--
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