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

[Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com>]

24.07.2017 23:13 Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>
>
> * Carlos O'Donell:
>
> [...]
> > My only technical objection with writing straight UTF-8 is that it could
> > lead to more mistakes, and Mike just found one in CLDR where an Arabic
> > Farsi character was used incorrectly because it displayed the same glyph.
> > It was caught when harmonizing with glibc where you have to write out the
> > code points (Mike filed a bug upstream with CLDR).
>
> Wasn't it caught by locale testing which revealed that the locale
> wasn't compatible with ISO-8859-6? [...]

This is exactly what happened.  The character was not representable in
ISO-8859-6.  There was no problem in UTF-8.

> [...]
> > My preference would be to start small, start using the POSIX portable
> > character set to it's maximum extent for all latin-based languages,
>
> I would still prefer the <U…> encoding for control characters which
> are in the portable character set. So I have to object to the
> “maximum” part. :)

I agree modulo the concerns which I expressed in another email:
let's investigate the history behind it and if we still don't
know then let's just wait for the 2.26 release.

Regards,

Rafal