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Re: RFC: locale-source validation script
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Mike FABIAN <maiku dot fabian at gmail dot com>, Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 09:52:32 +0200
- Subject: Re: RFC: locale-source validation script
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On Jul 25 2017, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
> - There are quite a few strings that aren't NFC and I suspect it's
> going to take expert knowledge of the languages involved to tell if
> that's desirable.
I don't think NFC or not has anything to do with the language.
> - Speaking of, why is it that every single locale source file uses %
> for comments and / for escapes, instead of the default # for comments
> and \ for escapes? It seems gratuitous and it made the linter harder
> to write.
Probably because \ is not portable to all charsets.
Andreas.
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