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Re: [PATCH] Change et_EE charset to ISO-8859-15
- From: Paweł Sakowski <pawel at sakowski dot eu dot org>
- To: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 19:04:24 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change et_EE charset to ISO-8859-15
Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > -et_EE/ISO-8859-1 \
> > +et_EE/ISO-8859-15 \
>
> No, this creates incompatibilities. Once a locale has a name its
> encoding cannot be changed.
And why is that? There is a well-defined API so that programs can obtain
the actual encoding used. If a program silently assumes that et_EE uses
ISO 8859-1, then this is the source of incompatibilities, if any. Come on,
everybody can generate their own 8859-15 locale using
localedef -fISO-8859-15 and call it et_EE. How is that incompatible with
anything?
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