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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,
	 Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com>,
	 libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Is it OK to write ASCII strings directly into locale source files?
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 17:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8y13gvb.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvmy3rdx577.fsf@suse.de> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Mon, 24 Jul 2017 16:47:08 +0200")

* Andreas Schwab:

> On Jul 24 2017, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> So let us start slowly and agree with 'ASCII - [<>]' where < denotes
>> the start of a code point and > the end of the code point.
>
> POSIX says "character in the portable character set" if you want to keep
> it portable.

But our locales only have to be compatible with our localedef, right?

I know that the FSF does not claim copyright on our locales, so anyone
is free to take them and use them with their own non-GNU systems (or
sell them as PDFs/books).  But this does not mean we have to make
their lives easier if it comes at a cost to us (e.g., verifying that
we only use the portable character set, or refraining from using full
UTF-8 at a future date).

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-24 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-24 13:13 Mike FABIAN
2017-07-24 13:28 ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-07-24 13:32   ` Mike FABIAN
2017-07-24 14:47     ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-07-24 15:03       ` Mike FABIAN
2017-07-24 15:45         ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-07-24 22:39       ` Rafal Luzynski
2017-07-24 22:55         ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-07-24 14:49   ` Andreas Schwab
2017-07-24 15:07     ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-07-24 17:07     ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2017-07-24 20:07       ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-07-24 22:34         ` Florian Weimer
2017-07-24 22:51           ` Rafal Luzynski
2017-07-25  5:40           ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-07-25  6:27             ` Mike FABIAN
2017-07-25 12:48               ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-07-25 14:21                 ` Florian Weimer
2017-07-25 14:37                   ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-07-25 19:05                     ` Florian Weimer

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