Dropping some locales/encodings?

Andrey Chernov ache at freebsd.org
Tue Mar 1 02:55:43 UTC 2016


On 01.03.2016 2:23, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have updated few month ago the locales to cldr v27.0.1. I would like to
> simplify the generation of those locales from cldr to POSIX locales that we do
> provides.
> 
> I can properly generate almost any of the said locales/encodings but a few that
> I would like to remove (provided that unicode version are available)
> 
> Here is the list of locales/encodings:
> 
> be_BY.CP1251

CP1251 is Windows native (single characters mode) and widely used to
represent Cyrillic: Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
(i.e. be_BY), Macedonian. IMHO it will be better to not remove it to
make easy handling of native encoded texts comes from Windows.

Don't know about other mentioned.

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