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Re: [PATCH] Locales: Cyrillic -> ASCII transliteration table [BZ #2872] re-submission for 2.29
On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 6:05 PM Rafal Luzynski
<digitalfreak@lingonborough.com> wrote:
> The problem is that we don't have a separate maintainer for each locale,
> we have only 2 maintainers for about 200 locales and we must represent
> them all. Sometimes a locale may happen to be our own native locale or
> of someone in this list, or it may be a locale which we accidentally can
> speak as a foreign language, or we may have friends who can speak it.
> Or it may be totally unknown and we still must somehow handle it.
I just want to mention that this is also why most of the non-locale
maintainers tend to stay out of threads about locales. We know we're
even less expert on these issues than you are, and I think as a
general rule you should be assuming that the community is OK with what
you're doing unless someone speaks up to object.
zw