From: Keld Simonsen <keld@keldix.com>
To: fweimer at redhat dot com <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
Cc: libc-locales@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [Bug localedata/14641] Deprecate name_fmt
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140617165418.GA481@rap.rap.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-14641-716-rAOEkCaeS8@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 07:48:21AM +0000, fweimer at redhat dot com wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14641
>
> --- Comment #15 from Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> ---
> (In reply to Philip Withnall from comment #14)
> > (In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #13)
> > > Closing per previous discussion.
> >
> > As per comments #5 and #6, I think the proper solution is to deprecate
> > name_fmt, since it seems to be fundamentally incorrect to have it in libc,
> > and keeping it un-deprecated just encourages people to use it incorrectly or
> > unsuccessfully.
>
> Fair enough. That would extend to LC_NAME, LC_ADDRESS, LC_TELEPHONE, I
> suppose. What about LC_MEASUREMENT and LC_IDENTIFICATION?
>
> Related identifiers include _NL_NAME_*, _NL_ADDRESS_*, _NL_TELEPHONE_*, plus
> the _NL_NUM_* identifiers. Anything else?
Hmm, what is the reason for this? Name layout and the other issues are
cultural conventions that should be adaptable in software.
Best regards
Keld
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-28 11:50 [Bug localedata/14641] New: Add a strftime()-like function for formatting human names bugzilla at tecnocode dot co.uk
2012-09-28 12:05 ` Keld Simonsen
2012-09-28 12:41 ` [Bug localedata/14641] " keld at keldix dot com
2012-09-28 12:41 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2013-11-06 13:01 ` simon.mcvittie at collabora dot co.uk
2013-11-06 15:13 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2013-11-06 16:12 ` simon.mcvittie at collabora dot co.uk
2013-11-06 16:33 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2013-11-06 23:57 ` Keld Simonsen
2013-11-06 23:58 ` keld at keldix dot com
2013-11-06 23:58 ` neleai at seznam dot cz
2013-11-07 3:16 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2013-11-07 12:29 ` Keld Simonsen
2013-11-07 12:30 ` keld at keldix dot com
2013-11-07 15:27 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2013-11-07 19:02 ` Keld Simonsen
2013-11-07 19:03 ` keld at keldix dot com
2014-06-17 4:30 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
2014-06-17 7:33 ` [Bug localedata/14641] Deprecate name_fmt bugzilla at tecnocode dot co.uk
2014-06-17 7:49 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
2014-06-17 16:54 ` Keld Simonsen [this message]
2014-06-17 17:03 ` keld at keldix dot com
2014-06-17 17:09 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2014-06-20 5:48 ` Keld Simonsen
2014-06-19 22:48 ` bugzilla at tecnocode dot co.uk
2014-06-20 5:50 ` keld at keldix dot com
2014-06-20 7:28 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2014-06-20 11:03 ` Keld Simonsen
2014-06-20 11:05 ` keld at keldix dot com
2014-06-20 13:22 ` bugzilla at tecnocode dot co.uk
2014-06-21 18:35 ` Keld Simonsen
2014-06-21 18:37 ` keld at keldix dot com
2014-06-23 8:21 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
2014-06-23 13:01 ` Keld Simonsen
2014-06-23 13:04 ` keld at keldix dot com
2014-06-23 21:07 ` Keld Simonsen
2014-06-23 21:08 ` keld at keldix dot com
2014-06-23 21:08 ` myllynen at redhat dot com
2014-06-23 21:57 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2014-06-23 22:12 ` Keld Simonsen
2014-06-23 22:13 ` keld at keldix dot com
2014-06-24 7:40 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
2016-02-19 10:46 ` [Bug localedata/14641] LC_NAME: deprecate locale category vapier at gentoo dot org
2016-02-19 15:42 ` myllynen at redhat dot com
2016-02-19 16:15 ` vapier at gentoo dot org
2016-02-19 18:29 ` Keld Simonsen
2016-02-19 18:33 ` keld at keldix dot com
2016-02-19 23:22 ` vapier at gentoo dot org
2016-02-19 23:26 ` Keld Simonsen
2016-02-19 23:27 ` keld at keldix dot com
2016-02-20 6:07 ` vapier at gentoo dot org
2016-02-22 8:10 ` Keld Simonsen
2016-02-22 8:12 ` keld at keldix dot com
2016-02-22 10:13 ` vapier at gentoo dot org
2019-01-02 11:59 ` Keld Simonsen
2018-12-20 8:38 ` pander at users dot sourceforge.net
2018-12-20 9:52 ` pander at users dot sourceforge.net
2019-01-01 11:42 ` pander at users dot sourceforge.net
2019-01-02 11:59 ` keld at keldix dot com
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