Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 09:35:26 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org, core@freebsd.org Subject: Locale stuff: call for conclusion. Message-ID: <3031.813918926@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Oct 1995 20:06:14 EST." <199510170006.UAA25504@exalt.x.org>
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(Core-members: Please send a vote to me on this)
I belive that if not everything, then at least at lot, have been said,
(sometimes even over and over again) but nothing has yet been done.
I think we can also agree to the following things:
1. The crt0.s thing is a kludge, which should go away as soon as
something more sane is implemented.
2. The crt0.s thing is actually a violation of some stds.
3. There is no harm to make the default case (unsetenv LANG & all that)
be ISO-8859-1, and this will make a lot of people a lot more happy.
It may not help Andrey much, but it is a large part of our userbase.
4. The right solution is to go through the programs, one by one and DTRT
to them, if it makes sense. A lot of programs shouldn't care at all,
cp(1) for instance, whereas other programs it does indeed matter,
sort(1) for instance.
Based on this I suggest that we:
A) execute 3.
B) execute 1. in the other sense of the word, and get crt0.s cleaned up.
This will happen January 1st 1996 even if A) and/or C) hasn't happened.
C) execute 4, as soon as anybody volounteer to do it.
--
Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team.
http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox.
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It will be some time yet before progress goes too far... (Poul Henningsen)
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