Dropping some locales/encodings?

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 1 08:04:27 UTC 2016


On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 05:47:25AM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ok Given the replies I will then change the way I'm looking at it and see if I
can provide static version of those instead of removing and generate all others
from cldr.

Thanks for the quick replies

Best regards,
Bapt
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