Re: [PATCH] Use Unicode code points for country_isbn

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On 21 Jul 2015 10:40, keld@keldix.com wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 04:18:40AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 09 Jun 2015 13:12, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> > > On 2015-06-09 10:11, Ond??ej BÃlka wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 05:57:06PM +0300, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> > > >> make country_isbn definitions consistent across locales by using
> > > >> Unicode code points not numerals everywhere. The code in
> > > >> locale/categories.def and locale/programs/ld-address.c already
> > > >> handles strings.
> > > >>
> > > >> Please apply.
> > > >
> > > > Possible but why, when these are numbers which are easier to read than
> > > > strings?
> > > 
> > > that's true, and I don't feel too strongly about this, but currently
> > > some locales are using numbers and some are using Unicode code points so
> > > there's a bit of inconsistency, also it's not that hard to read these
> > > once one sees that e.g. 12 becomes "<U0031><U0032>" i.e. only the last
> > > digit matters.
> > 
> > i find many of the U markers pointlessly obscure, especially when they're used
> > for characters that are in the ASCII standard.  if we're standardizing on UTF8
> > encodings in general, why can't we convert these files as well ?  keep in mind
> > that i'm ignorant of the tooling around these files ;).
> 
> The use of Unicode points helps making the locales portable, eg.
> when crosscompiling for different architectures, including embedded systems, ebcdic
> systems, utf-16 systems and utf8 systems, when you are on a different host platform.

i'm referring to the tools we use -- either inside of the source repo
(i.e. ones we wrote/maintain), or external ones that operate on our
files directly (i.e. gcc).  what actual problems do you see here ?
vague references like "cross-compiling is magic" aren't really that
interesting.

keep in mind we already use (and agreed to standardize on) UTF8 in
things like *.c and *.h and ChangeLog and READMEs and info pages.
-mike

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