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Re: [PING] [PING] [PATCH][BZ #13950] add commenting notation (%) toFIXME entries to locales for bo_CN and bo_IN
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/2012 01:15 PM, Chris Leonard wrote:
>>
>> Second ping for action
>
>
> The values you change are required values,and thus we get now warnings like:
>
> if you run "make localedata/install-locales", you'll get:
> bo_CN.UTF-8...LC_NAME: field `name_fmt' not defined
> LC_ADDRESS: field `postal_fmt' not defined
> done
> bo_IN.UTF-8...LC_NAME: field `name_fmt' not defined
> LC_ADDRESS: field `postal_fmt' not defined
> done
>
> So, what's better - no value or an obviously wrong value?
No value is better.
This is the name format and it's not obvious to a non-native english
speaker what FIXME is.
I would say the following list is in decreasing order of correctness:
(1) The correct value.
(2) No value.
(3) "" (blank)
(4) Garbage e.g. "FIXME"
Cheers,
Carlos.