svn commit: r228909 - head/games/fortune/datfiles

[Doug Barton]

On 12/28/2011 07:53, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 10:21:57 +0000, Doug Barton wrote:
>> Author: dougb
>> Date: Tue Dec 27 10:21:57 2011
>> New Revision: 228909
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/228909
>>
>> Log:
>>   1. Remove a bunch of duplicates. Usually this means removing them from
>>      fortunes, but occasionally remove them from the other 2 files when
>>      they are not offensive, or not murphy'ish enough.
>>   
>>      Where the version in fortunes had better attribution and/or formatting,
>>      copy it over.
>>   
>>   2. Fix a few typos
>>   
>>   3. Use the full name of François De La Rochefoucauld, fix one of his
>>      quotes, and remove the duplicate of it.
> 
> Sigh,
> 
> except for a stupid Unicode version of an apostrophe (’ vs ')

That seems like an easy thing to fix?

> this file
> was ASCII. And I made it so for a reason. We don't currently have a way
> to iconv fortune(6)'s output to the users LC_CTYPE. ASCII is the common
> denominator so that's what we have to choose to be bug free.

What breaks for non-ASCII text?

> My plan was to teach fortune to use bsdiconv once that is ready and in
> the tree to convert from Unicode to the users' locale. But until that is
> ready, we have to stick to ASCII.

I'm not opposed to doing that, but I want to make sure that a) it's for
a good reason, and b) that we have some way to know what needs to be
added back when it's safe.

Meanwhile, I did actually test this change and it worked for me, so I
thought it was safe to proceed.

> This is not a backout request, 

I've no objection to making a change. Apparently the De should be de
anyway, so what do you suggest?


Doug

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