From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 101933 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2015 10:26:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-locales-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-locales-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 101906 invoked by uid 89); 24 Jul 2015 10:26:30 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: rap.rap.dk Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:26:00 -0000 From: Keld Simonsen To: Paul Eggert Cc: Carlos O'Donell , Ond??ej =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=EDlka?= , Marko Myllynen , GNU C Library , libc-locales@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use Unicode code points for country_isbn Message-ID: <20150724102623.GB10515@rap.rap.dk> References: <5571B8C2.8000108@redhat.com> <20150609071130.GA26925@domone> <55B1858C.7090305@redhat.com> <55B1A00D.6030302@cs.ucla.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55B1A00D.6030302@cs.ucla.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SW-Source: 2015-q3/txt/msg00039.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 07:16:45PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Carlos O'Donell wrote: > >Joseph, Ondrej, and myself agree that we should find a way to just make > >these files UTF-8. I expect that a precondition is going to be to add > >an unremovable C.UTF-8 locale, which I think is important. > > I also like the idea of having these files be UTF-8. > > Why is an unremovable C.UTF-8 locale a precondition, though? We > should be able to assume a properly-installed localedef and a > minimum set of locales for running development tools like localedef. > The minimum set could include en_US.UTF-8. I would recommend using the i18n locale - that is the purpose of i18n locale to be the locale to buid all the other locales from. Best regards Keld