Re: Is it OK to write ASCII strings directly into locale source files?

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>]

On 07/24/2017 10:49 AM, Mike FABIAN wrote:
> 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. 

Sounds like a good reason to me.

>>> 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?

Andreas Schwab just pointed out that we should already technically support
using any character in the POSIX portable character set in the locale definitions.

So I think there is nothing to comment, and we are still within the definition of
POSIX for making these locales portable.

So feel free to change any UTF-8 code points into their equivalent POSIX portable
character set characters.

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Cheers,
Carlos.