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Re: Is it OK to write ASCII strings directly into locale source files?
- From: Mike FABIAN <mfabian at redhat dot com>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 16:49:45 +0200
- Subject: Re: Is it OK to write ASCII strings directly into locale source files?
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Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> さんはかきました:
> On 07/24/2017 09:28 AM, Mike FABIAN wrote:
>> Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/24/2017 09:09 AM, Mike FABIAN wrote:
[...]
>> Yes, that sounds like a very reasonable first step!
>>
>> Is it OK to use that already *now*?
>
> You and Rafal are localedata maintainers, you can assume consensus, therefore
> you can start changing things in whatever way you wish.
>
> Before you change this though I would like to see your list of reasons
> for making the change, what benefits do you see it bringing? Is readability
> the only one?
Readability is the only reason for me at the moment, editing these files
using the code points is very tedious and error prone.
>> So maybe it is possible to use that right now without having to change
>> anything in the code parsing the locale source files.
>
> You need to document somewhere what is acceptable and what is not and
> which ASCII characters cannot be used.
Where should that be documented?
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Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com>