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Re: How to "copy" with overrides in a locale file?
- From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 16 Jun 2003 20:23:13 +0200
- Subject: Re: How to "copy" with overrides in a locale file?
- References: <E19RtCr-0005lZ-00@saruman.uio.no> <3EEDF1BD.7060608@redhat.com>
- Reply-by: Tue, 1 Jan 1801 04:37:40 +1000
[Ulrich Drepper]
> Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > But this do not seem to be possible. Why?
>
> The locale definitions as they exist today have a chance of being
> portable. With non-standard copy usage this isn't the case anymore.
OK, so this is a limitation of the standard. The question remains why
this limitation is in the standard. I guess Keld is the man for such
considerations. :)