Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:48:56 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@freebsd.org> Cc: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk, kuriyama@sky.rim.or.jp, doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-translate@ngo.org.uk, doc-jp@jp.freebsd.org, cvs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FDP Directory Reorganisation Message-ID: <19990617194856.A26011@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <199906162246.PAA02177@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami on Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 03:46:34PM -0700 References: <19990513211458.B70767@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990603195027.A31941@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <37593369.10E2888D@sky.rim.or.jp> <19990607233227.A34938@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <199906162246.PAA02177@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 03:46:34PM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
> (Note to doc-jp people -- watch crossposting before replying.)
>
> * From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
>
> Sorry for being late to respond, finally caught up with all the mails
> since Usenix....
Not a problem.
[on migrating doc/ja]
> I'm still not sure why you want to do this.
Consistency. Specifically,
1. Consistency with how the rest of the doc/* tree will be organised.
2. Consistency with the settings in /usr/share/locale/*
3. Consistency with the IANA specifications at
http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets (which
is why we just went from zh_TW.BIG5 to zh_TW.Big5).
4. Consistency with KDE, Qt, Xtt, and so on.
> You are now proposing moving it back to ja_JP.EUC. But just a couple
> of months ago there was a discussion in one of the Japanese lists
> where someone proposed changing the official locale name of Japanese
> EUC to ja_JP.eucJP (or something like that -- I don't remember the
> capitalization). Most people seemed to agree with that (although
> nothing happened -- what ever came of that discussion?).
That discussion passed me by, and there's been ample time in the discussion
on -doc for someone from the JA team to bring this up.
> My point is that everyone seems to have a different idea as to what is
> the right directory name,
Agreed. Which is why I've done the research to find out what the official
names are (cf., the IANA link above).
> Of course, *IF* and when we have different encodings for various
> Japanese documents, we can always talk about a reorganization. But
> until then, I can't see this as anything other than a gratuitous
> change for the sake of change.
It's change now to get it over and done with, while the doc repository
is still relatively small (although it's growing every day, thanks to
the efforts of the FDP volunteers).
N
--
[intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
-- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
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