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. -- http://ache.vniz.net/
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