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Re: [PATCH] localedata: fix LC_ADDRESS.country_car entries
- From: keld at keldix dot com
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail dot com>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:13:14 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] localedata: fix LC_ADDRESS.country_car entries
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 12:47:28AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 04/12/2016 11:44 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 12 Apr 2016 10:33, Chris Leonard wrote:
> >> It looks like you are routinely removing the human readable comment
> >> before the entry and only leaving the Unicode point. I'm of the
> >> opinion that it is useful for most of the Unicode-converted fields to
> >> have a human readable comment to lower the barrier to discovery and
> >> improvement of entries. is there a strong rationale for deleting the
> >> comments?
> >
> > the readable comments are out of date when i make changes, and i've
> > seen some cases (independent of my changes) where they're out of date.
> > i'd rather push for better tooling and get people used to that than
> > rely on possibly stale comments. the other option is where the files
> > are just always encoded in UTF-8 as discussed in an older thread and
> > then there's no need for comments at all.
>
> Right, if we get consensus to just use UTF-8 (I can't remember if there
> some objections last time) then we can do that.
Well, I think we should still use ASCII for portability. I belive Unicode does
the same for their data.
Best regards
keld