[PATCH] Use Unicode code points for country_isbn

[Florian Weimer]

On 07/21/2015 11:02 AM, keld@keldix.com wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:54:21AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 07/21/2015 10:40 AM, keld@keldix.com wrote:
>>
>>> The use of Unicode points helps making the locales portable, eg.
>>> when crosscompiling for different architectures, including embedded systems, ebcdic
>>> systems, utf-16 systems and utf8 systems, when you are on a different host platform.
>>
>> Is this really a relevant use case?  Cross-compiling glibc to an EBCDIC
>> system?
> 
> I also mentioned other cases, which may be more relevant.. 

I can't see how.  Unless someone maintains this code and processing
pipeline, it's not going to work with the current code.  Is anyone doing
it?  I doubt it.

We don't use trigraphs in C sources, so I really don't get why we have
to use an equivalent construct in the locale definitions.  Unless the
goal is to raise the bar for new contributors for some reason, but I
think the project has long walked away from that approach.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security