On Jun 18 14:09, thomas.wo...@nsn.com wrote: > 2009/6/16 Corinna Vinschen > > However, besides of being unnecessary, other systems like Linux or BSD > > use the language string as directory name relative to the > > /usr/share/locale directory. ?If this gets ever used on non-Cygwin > > systems, the symmetry (which has no precedent in the locale arena) would > > require these systems to create yet another subdirectory or symlink for > > the same purpose. ?Even worse, if you propose that @cjkwide is a valid > > modifier for *any* language, you would make the whole mechanism on > > non-newlib based systems more complicated for no apparent reason. > The silly unmodular way that some systems implement the locale mechanism > (the worst of them being SunOS) > should not be an argument to not propagate a reasonable solution. > [Who was in favour of these double negations?] > > The "locale interface" (syntax and semantics of LC_* strings) is defined > in a modular way and so the implementations should be - let them fix it.
What do you think, how big will be the acceptance of this approach outside of newlib/Cygwin? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
