Need help fixing failing locale tests

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 04:04:33PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On 15.11.2015 16:00, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 03:56:26PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> >> On 15.11.2015 15:46, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> >>> On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 03:24:19PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> >>>> On 15.11.2015 10:09, John Marino wrote:
> >>>> ISO8859-1 locales are legacy even if obsoleted in modern world (I agree
> >>>> with that). Lots of ports (even at configure stage!) have checks for
> >>>> them. Since we generate locales from CLDR now, it will be no cost to
> >>>> bring all 8859-1 back to not violate POLA and not fix every failing port.
> >>>>
> >>> Exp-run have been made and no ports were failing with the removed locales.
> >>
> >> There is soft-fail, configure just marks that locales are not supported
> >> and use "C". Sorry I don't remember port names where I saw it right now
> >> and don't have a time to search for them right now too. Soft-fails (like
> >> in tcl with nl_langinfo) are almost impossible to detect excepting
> >> specific situation happens or source code inspection. Do we ever need
> >> them when there is no harm to keep 8859-1 locales?
> > 
> > Is it ok if I readd those locales as aliases on 8859-15?
> 
> It is hacking solution leads to wrong collating order and character
> classes. It is better to generate true 8859-1 just in the same way you
> already do for 8859-15.
> 
> BTW, I can't check right now, but in case 8859-5 is removed too, it is
> better to restore it, it was used in Suns as their standard Russian
> encoding.
> 
I have restored the 8859-1

The 8859-5 were never removed:
be_BY.ISO8859-5
ru_RU.ISO8859-5
sr_Cyrl_RS.ISO8859-5
uk_UA.ISO8859-5

Best regards,
Bapt
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