Re: Need help fixing failing locale tests

From: Andrey Chernov <ache_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 18:45:25 +0300
On 15.11.2015 18:38, Andrey Chernov wrote:
>> For the traditional checks, It's ironic, DragonFly uses short locales
>> like "fr_FR" which link to the approprioprate ISO8859 or UTF-8 locale.
>> Bapt removed them to avoid a bike shed and if he had not done that, this
>> gettext configure would not be an issue as "fr_FR" is the very first check.
>
> But I dislike short locales due to their uncertainty

And gettext-0.19.6/gettext-tools/configure is good example of that
uncertainty. If DragonFly short locale fr_FR links to 8859-1, configure
test does what it is intended, but if it links to UTF-8 it does not.

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