Dropping some locales/encodings?

Sergey Manucharian sm at ara-ler.com
Tue Mar 1 03:45:48 UTC 2016


Excerpts from Andrey Chernov's message from Tue 01-Mar-16 05:47:
> On 01.03.2016 2:23, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 

I agree with Andrey that CP1251 is needed as one of major Cyrillic
encodings.

Not sure how the locale existence/absence effects that. Definitely nobody
uses it as a locale for more than a decade.

Sergey



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