Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:56:40 -0500 (EST) From: "Alexander N. Kabaev" <ak03@gte.com> To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD sort vs GNU sort. Message-ID: <XFMail.20011130115640.ak03@gte.com> In-Reply-To: <200111301644.fAUGiW073421@green.bikeshed.org>
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Switching to BSD sort will not buy anything, but there are other people who happen to have Russian as their native language and current half-assed locale support in GNU sort is still much better for them than no locale support whatsoever. They will lose, you will gain nothing - this looks like the total outcome of the change will be negative. Just my $0.2 On 30-Nov-2001 Brian F. Feldman wrote: > Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> wrote: > What would be the point of this proper "i18n" support anyway if it > wouldn't > support some of the most common locales, just like GNU sort doesn't > support > them now??? Andrey, you make me seriously wonder why I should care > about > the i18n "support" currently in GNU sort now. What would keeping GNU > sort > instead of switching to BSD sort buy me? > > I say we switch to BSD sort immediately, get rid of more crappy GNU > code, > and if we want to say that our sort supports i18n we can ACTUALLY > MAKE IT > SUPPORT I18N not some half-assed "this is internationalized where > 'international' means 'probably works for some latin languages, and > stuff'". > > -- > Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! > / > green@FreeBSD.org > `------------------------------' > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message -------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Alexander N. Kabaev <ak03@gte.com> Date: 30-Nov-2001 Time: 11:51:01 -------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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