Re: Per thread locales

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 08:31:57PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 06:43:57PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > In article <20151228182234.GA13714%netbsd.org@localhost>,
> > David Holland  <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > >On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 03:15:11PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > > > >Opinions?
> > > > 
> > > > We need to decide what to do with our locale situation. Ours (citrus)
> > > > needs some tender loving and attention which is not getting. We either
> > > > have to allocate enough manpower to bring it up to speed, or jettison
> > > > it and copy somebody elses (FreeBSD?).
> > >
> > >Is there a summary somewhere of what it needs?
> > 
> > - we lack basic functionality such as collation
> > - xlocale support
> 
> I think I already mentioned this, but now is a good time
> to borrow stuff from FreeBSD/DragonFlyBSD/Solaris:
> 
> http://blog.etoilebsd.net/post/This_is_how_I_like_opensource

I don't think the localedef format defined by POSIX is that useful.
CLDR alone certainly doesn't cover everything and the data is sometimes
a bit questionable as well. Either othersrc or the mailing list archives
should have a conversion script to extract the data we can deal with
from the CLDR archive. That leaves only the collation support. I haven't
looked at what the current iteration in FreeBSD does -- the older one
had enough issues to not be worth the trouble.

Joerg