Subject: Re: New UTF-8 locale definition file
To: None <junyoung@mogua.com>
From: T.SHIOZAKI <tshiozak@bsdclub.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/15/2002 02:16:48
From: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>
Subject: Re: New UTF-8 locale definition file
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 00:45:21 +0900
Message-ID: <20020715004521.A1112@krishna>

> On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 03:44:34AM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Hye-Shik Chang <perky@freebsd.org> sent me an UTF-8 locale definition
> > file which is replacement to the current en_US.UTF-8.src in
> > share/locale/ctype. I have made it available at:
> > 
> > 	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/junyoung
> 
> A new one is available at the same location as:
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/junyoung/en_US.UTF-8.src
> 
> It covers the whole Unicode range from U+0000 to U+FFFF, so it can be
> used not only for en_US, but also for many other locales like ja_JP,
> ko_KR, etc.

pros:
    - This enrich the Unicode locales.
cons:
    - This file is big.
      (However, we can still use en_US.ISO8859-1 if we want.)

Personally, I vote to commit it.


> To locale experts, is it okay to commit it? A comment from Thomas
> Klausner: "(it) looks much better than what we have."

Sounds good.


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Takuya SHIOZAKI