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[Bug localedata/14641] Deprecate name_fmt
- From: "fweimer at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:48:21 +0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/14641] Deprecate name_fmt
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- References: <bug-14641-716 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14641
--- Comment #15 from Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Philip Withnall from comment #14)
> (In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #13)
> > Closing per previous discussion.
>
> As per comments #5 and #6, I think the proper solution is to deprecate
> name_fmt, since it seems to be fundamentally incorrect to have it in libc,
> and keeping it un-deprecated just encourages people to use it incorrectly or
> unsuccessfully.
Fair enough. That would extend to LC_NAME, LC_ADDRESS, LC_TELEPHONE, I
suppose. What about LC_MEASUREMENT and LC_IDENTIFICATION?
Related identifiers include _NL_NAME_*, _NL_ADDRESS_*, _NL_TELEPHONE_*, plus
the _NL_NUM_* identifiers. Anything else?
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