From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Tue Mar 1 03:41:12 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@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 9A5ECAB841B for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2016 03:41:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sm@ara-ler.com) 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 7B3981EF3 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2016 03:41:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sm@ara-ler.com) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 7ABA7AB8417; Tue, 1 Mar 2016 03:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: hackers@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 7A615AB8416 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2016 03:41:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sm@ara-ler.com) Received: from mail-ob0-x234.google.com (mail-ob0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::234]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 40E441EF1 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2016 03:41:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sm@ara-ler.com) Received: by mail-ob0-x234.google.com with SMTP id fz5so23323298obc.0 for ; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:41:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ara-ler-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=ZY+j+AgPosCZx3ifPME0haVA1NYNiYB/4eV5djmWC1I=; b=HVbCxiBnywddH/NZLcL1IvyCdfjfte30lzKb5b5jOH2s3txziEVdA/z4CrCF3Q/flq +yvYlGvad9sIVYucTbegLLJUdg0mB+UEBoUpKloSiht6b/zTrWPfQPY2v7rrNBRrCxqy ioJaYedYiRK/qruu3Q0+9jU9guKiEtd1XqVJzkG2T0ZMB25amAPhZAk+FteHpjJIXf5R PL1nGJ4Mz46keXTvhMzF7TyL+p02+oxYT5yXU3rRhkExhd3PTSMCK8gNgofXb7aCOkrL TlZLdcvfU9pYTJ0cDy6M9o06IvdCi8WNqC84+695ysGheE/jOkRyfAwO71WYKYnb1byy zfyA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=ZY+j+AgPosCZx3ifPME0haVA1NYNiYB/4eV5djmWC1I=; b=FTl0G0m3Cm/6P8BR7psXWVav/BaEKDqDpZToDU3DE4fyROp2FNMk8Td5qXV9LIs2Uu AHoXsgX040y+t6z5xuZH6+UH4Z5Jx/7McGEwsKe8caMjJynyb/kNkYiY++6DaFU+lKLL phDFkeMA+14r5DtuBpIp2kj4O597SL185rhMCUI9fAW7mSnkdiQlv8ReJVDTCRlZ726A Ad/Wyh5bZMgOX66RCodMvx+mKMq6Sv2NMT661s3YplwzIFb9yJtKHGBtfw/cUPz/1zdJ bE08yp4Bt1duD8PcX+vO4ivz7oO5BarsDj1PxSN7fZq6Oa7ro3XoX4nH1p4BXGh+TtpW TUXQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJIH9OopgJFdmCfuNDJ25/1NUIhQYwEJ8hZLvOSsXadJJhXaVWpf+qq1C0/uLoBCUA== X-Received: by 10.182.55.10 with SMTP id n10mr14309038obp.68.1456803671011; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:41:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from dendrobates.araler.com (97-122-190-138.hlrn.qwest.net. [97.122.190.138]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l136sm20338661oib.5.2016.02.29.19.41.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:41:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:41:08 -0700 From: Sergey Manucharian To: Baptiste Daroussin Cc: current@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropping some locales/encodings? Message-ID: <20160301034108.GG52633@dendrobates.araler.com> References: <20160229232334.GG84995@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160229232334.GG84995@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 04:27:58 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 03:41:12 -0000 Excerpts from Baptiste Daroussin's message from Tue 01-Mar-16 00:23: > > I would like to remove (provided that unicode version are available) > > Here is the list of locales/encodings: > > be_BY.CP1251 > be_BY.CP1131 > hi_IN.ISCII-DEV > hy_AM.ARMSCII-8 > zh_HK.Big5HKSCS > > Provided that those should be covered by respectively: > be_BY.ISO8859-5 be_BY.UTF-8 > hi_IN.UTF-8 > hy_AM.UTF-8 > zh_HK.UTF-8 zh_Hans_HK.UTF-8 > > Anyone has a strong opinion against this removal? > Well, as a locale hy_AM.ARMSCII-8 is definitely not needed. However, as an encoding it's still useful: sometimes I (and probably some other people) need to convert some "ancient" documents from ARMSCII-8 to UTF-8. I do not think that the removing it will prevent such conversion anyway (e.g. with iconv), correct? Sergey P.S. "hy" = Hayastan = Armenia