On 01.11.15 22:30, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:23:06AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have been working for a while on bringing in Unicode string collation >> support by merging code from Illumos (by Garrett D'Amore who kindly made sure >> his work was made under BSD license) and Dragonfly (by John Marino), and some >> ancient work done on FreeBSD by edwin_at_ but never merged. >> >> The result is available in the projects/collation branch. >> >> As a result of this work, is: >> - Locales are now generated with the new localedef(1) tool from CLDR POSIX files >> - The generated files are now identified as "BSD 1.0" format >> - Only "BSD 1.0" locales files are now read, all other version will be set to >> "C" >> - The localedef(1) tool has been imported from Illumos and modidied to use >> tree(3) instead of the CDDL avl(3) >> - A set of tool created by edwin_at_ and extended by marino_at_ for dragonfly has been >> added to be able to generate locales >> - Given our regex(3) does not support multibyte yet (actually it does not >> support some single-byte codeset) it has been forced to always use locale C >> - Remove colldef(1) and mklocale(1) >> - Finish implementing the numeric BSD extension for ctypes >> - Add a bunch of new locales: some arabian locales, hebrew locales, some >> regional locales, etc. >> - Make a bunch of ISO-8859-1 locales simple aliase on ISO-8859-15 where it makes >> sense >> - Add short version of locales >> - Add _at_euro aliases on the locales where that make sense >> >> Please test the branch and report issues. >> >> Note that yes that means the COLLATION_FIX patch on glib2 will not be necessary >> anymore >> and yes the icu patch on postgresql will not be necessary anymore >> >> Best regards, >> Bapt > > All issues reported has been fixed, except if more issues are reported, this > will be merged into head next saturday: November 7th Cool! Waiting for it! Thanks, AndreasReceived on Sun Nov 01 2015 - 20:55:01 UTC
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