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Re: [PATCH] Use Unicode code points for country_isbn


On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 07:16:45PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> >Joseph, Ondrej, and myself agree that we should find a way to just make
> >these files UTF-8. I expect that a precondition is going to be to add
> >an unremovable C.UTF-8 locale, which I think is important.
> 
> I also like the idea of having these files be UTF-8.
> 
> Why is an unremovable C.UTF-8 locale a precondition, though?  We
> should be able to assume a properly-installed localedef and a
> minimum set of locales for running development tools like localedef.
> The minimum set could include en_US.UTF-8.

You are then going to deviate from POSUX and ISO TR 30112 practice.

As you may know, I am involved in POSIX and 30112 standardization,
and I have tried to align 30112 with glibc practice. If you are deviating
 from POSIX guidelines, I have trouble unifying the two goals.

I also would like to have the 30112 standard implemented more broadly than just
glibc. Rumours has it that this is done somewhere else.
I would like to then use the glibc locales for the ISO 15897 registry,
and give maximum usability to those - that is the locales should be
fulle charset independent.

Also SC35 is looking at revising 30112 and in that revision we would
like to also update the character info to a new revision of 10646,
aligned to what is used in the sorting standard ISO 14651,
and I would like to use the glibc LC_CTYPE for that. 

I agree with that it should be easier to create locales.
One could do that with a GUI that helped create and proofread and test locales.

Best regards
Keld


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