Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:37:37 +0300 From: Dmitry Sivachenko <mitya@cavia.pp.ru> To: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re[2]: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars calendar.croatian calendar.german calendar.russian src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/de_DE.ISO8859-1 calendar.all calendar.feiertag calendar.geschichte calendar.kirche calendar.literatur calendar.musik calendar.wissenschaft ... Message-ID: <8041195288.20020107113737@cavia.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20020105221726.A722@ark.cris.net> References: <20020105211715.A98164@ark.cris.net> <200201051957.g05JvVl25556@aldan.algebra.com> <20020105221726.A722@ark.cris.net>
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Здравствуйте, Alexey. Вы писали 5 января 2002 г., 23:17:26: AZ> hi, AZ> On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 02:57:28PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: >> >> Not a Russian, I think of myself as Soviet -- frequently conversing >> >> in Russian language, using ru_SU felt just fine. ru_RU feels >> >> disturbing :-| >> > >> > Sorry, but from technical perspective -- SU is a Contry Code assigned >> > for Sudan IIRC. >> >> No, that would be SD: >> >> http://www1.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/country-codes.txt >> >> SU is the former USSR -- as expected. AZ> Mentioned page lists Top Level Domains. But actual country codes AZ> are listed by ISO 3166[*]. SU is missing from this list. This means AZ> that SU is unassigned code and can be assigned in future. AZ> [*]: http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/doc/ISO_3166.html >> > So, having Russian language locale for Sudan is slightly strange as >> > for me :-) >> >> > Also I have to note that FreeBSD is only OS which is using ru_SU >> > locale as I know. Everybody else are using ru_RU for ages. >> >> I like FreeBSD. Can't we keep the ru_SU alias? Please? AZ> This requires adding a hack to 'make hierarchy' functionality. Correctly, AZ> remove exisitng /usr/share/{nls,locale}/ru_RU.* before execution of AZ> mtree(1). Only in this case ru_RU locale should be setup correctly for AZ> 'make world' upgrades. Otherwise we'll have crossed symlinks between AZ> ru_RU and ru_SU locale directories and broken world as result :-( I don't AZ> think that purpose is worth such hacks. But if there're will be more AZ> requests and no objections I'll do it. I tend to agree with Mikhail here. If there is no strong reason to remove ru_SU, it should stay. Backward compatibility is important. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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