LOCALE, Ltd.?

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 4/4/06, Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> wrote:
> I'd been talking on a forum with a Linux database guy,
> and he mentioned that on the PostGres lists, people
> would "love to use *BSD" but the locale support is limited.
>
> Well, sure 'nough, `locale -a | wc -l` seems to be in the
> mid-200s here, and his systems have over 550 locales.
>
> I've probably not RTFM'ed enough, but I'm just looking
> for a short answer.  What does FreeBSD need to have
> more locales*?  I'm assuming the answer is, more people
> in more locations willing to take the time to RTFM and
> submit patches to $x team.....
>
> Discussion?  Linkage?  Slaps to the head?
>
> Kevin Kinsey
>
>
> * and, of course, an obvious counter question:  *does* FreeBSD
> need to have more LOCALES?"

I would not think that it could hurt.
But I tend to think that even spurious
locales would be sexy to have.

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