On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 06:48:00PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote: > On 23.07.2016 15:32, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 02:58:31PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote: > >> On 23.07.2016 14:52, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > >>> On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 02:41:39PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote: > >>>> On 23.07.2016 14:24, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > >>>>> Author: bapt > >>>>> Date: Sat Jul 23 11:24:05 2016 > >>>>> New Revision: 303218 > >>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/303218 > >>>>> > >>>>> Log: > >>>>> Add another hack to add weekday to date format to more locales > >>>>> > >>>>> While here only initialize the iconv converter when needed > >>>>> > >>>>> Modified: > >>>>> head/tools/tools/locale/tools/cldr2def.pl > >>>> > >>>> BTW, is there any progress in generating all collates with -m ${area} as > >>>> you planned? > >>>> > >>> you mean the @modifier? > >> > >> No, I mean that: > >>>> Perhaps all uk_UA should be generated with -m ${area} too - Ukrainians > >>>> have extended Cyrillics in their alphabet and I am not sure that their > >>>> order match default Unicode order for Cyrillic. The same about be_BY, > >>>> bg_BG and sr_Cyrl_RS. They may match or may not, I don't check such > >>> deeply. > >>>> > >>>> It seems the safest side will be to generate all with -m ${area} > >>>> > >>> Yes that is my plan, except for the 1 or 2 that cannot be generated > >> >from cldr > >>> directly > >> > > > > Nope I haven't made any progress, and I actually did a bunch of tests of > > some > > (honnestly not all locales) trying to get a representative set and could not > > find differnce in ordering between locales generated with -m ${area}. > > > > It would also needs lots of work on the generation tools. > > > > I first need to write a tool that compares collation rules for various > > ${area} > > (not done yet) to see how much this is really needed and use it in the > > generation tools. > > > > I will try to do that for 12 if it is really worth it (based on the result > > from > > that comparison tools) > > IMHO we don't need comparison tools, just blindly adding -m ${area} to > generating of every collate with different area be enough. CLDR may > involve from time to time including national alphabets changes (which > may happen often enough too), so it will be better to not run such tests > every time with new CLDR import, but just the make code which do it > correctly independently (-m ${area}) and forget about it, it will be > much easier to maintain. Moreover, you'll spend more time writing such > testing tool than adding -m ${area} :) >
Point taken, still the whole tooling has been made around not doing the -m
${area} thing which I worked around for a few collation, I need to rework (aka
greatly simplify those tools so good direction) to be able to do a full -m
${area}. I will do that for sure for 12.0
Best regards,
Bapt
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