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Re: [PATCH] Use Unicode code points for country_isbn
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>, Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, libc-locales at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 20:23:40 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use Unicode code points for country_isbn
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- References: <5571B8C2 dot 8000108 at redhat dot com> <20150609071130 dot GA26925 at domone>
On 06/09/2015 03:11 AM, OndÅej BÃlka wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 05:57:06PM +0300, Marko Myllynen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> make country_isbn definitions consistent across locales by using
>> Unicode code points not numerals everywhere. The code in
>> locale/categories.def and locale/programs/ld-address.c already
>> handles strings.
>>
>> Please apply.
>>
> Possible but why, when these are numbers which are easier to read than
> strings?
>
I agree with Ondrej. Why?
The question we should all be asking ourselves here is:
"What can we do to make it *easier* to maintain these files?"
Making everyone write in Unicode code points is not easier.
Joseph, Ondrej, and myself agree that we should find a way to just make
these files UTF-8. I expect that a precondition is going to be to add
an unremovable C.UTF-8 locale, which I think is important.
Cheers,
Carlos.