Re: [PATCH][BZ 15593] Add transliteration data for "LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE" (ø)

[Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com>]

Hi,

On 2013-10-17 17:53, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2013, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> 
>> Also, I wonder how do we cope with these kind of local additions when
>> resolving bug 14094?
> 
> I don't think either 14094 (character map, LC_CTYPE) or 14095 (collation) 
> has anything to do with transliteration, and I wasn't aware of our 
> transliteration data coming from any upstream source for which there would 
> be merge issues for local changes.
> 
> Of course for both those bugs we do need to understand exactly how the 
> present files in glibc relate to an old version of the upstream data, in 
> order to make a correct merge, but I hope that in most cases, especially 
> for 14094, if we use the latest upstream data correctly we will be able to 
> satisfy ourselves that, if local changes made different choices from 
> upstream, there's no real advantage to the local version over the upstream 
> one.

for example localedata/locales/translit_combining states "Generated from
UnicodeData.txt" so I was thinking if we regenerate the file again in
the future from newer upstream data then we might lost these kind of
local additions. Both Æ and Ø are in the same block so I'm also unclear
why the other was present and the other was missing in the first place.
Or am I perhaps missing something here?

Cheers,

-- 
Marko Myllynen