[PATCH 4/5] localedata: CLDRv28: update LC_ADDRESS.lang_name translations

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Fri Feb 19 14:02:00 GMT 2016


On 02/12/2016 07:49 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 13 Feb 2016 03:28, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 01:13:06AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> This updates a bunch of locales based on CLDR v28 data:
>>>   be_BY: changing беларуская мова to беларуская
>>>   bg_BG: changing български език to български
>> [...]
>>> --- a/localedata/locales/be_BY
>>> +++ b/localedata/locales/be_BY
>>> @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ country_num 112
>>>  % BY
>>>  country_car    "<U0042><U0059>"
>>>  % беларуская мова
>>> -lang_name    "<U0431><U0435><U043B><U0430><U0440><U0443><U0441><U043A><U0430><U044F><U0020><U043C><U043E><U0432><U0430>"
>>> +lang_name    "<U0431><U0435><U043B><U0430><U0440><U0443><U0441><U043A><U0430><U044F>"
>> [...]
>>> --- a/localedata/locales/bg_BG
>>> +++ b/localedata/locales/bg_BG
>>> @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ country_num   100
>>>  country_car  "<U0042><U0047>"
>>>  country_isbn  954
>>>  % български език
>>> -lang_name    "<U0431><U044A><U043B><U0433><U0430><U0440><U0441><U043A><U0438><U0020><U0435><U0437><U0438><U043A>"
>>> +lang_name    "<U0431><U044A><U043B><U0433><U0430><U0440><U0441><U043A><U0438>"
>>
>> All these comments are falling out of sync.  BTW, they don't seem to
>> provide any information in addition to keywords they comment,
>> so what's the use of keeping such comments?
> 
> i noted in an earlier message that i need to respin and throw away the
> comments because they are out of sync.  this gets back to a previous
> conversation we had about using UTF-8 encoding in all the localedata
> files instead of ASCII.  these <Uxxxx> encodings are a pita.

I think we should just use UTF-8.

What was the consensus the last time we talked about this?

Cheers,
Carlos.



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