Is it OK to write ASCII strings directly into locale source files?

[Mike FABIAN]

Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> さんはかきました:

> On 07/24/2017 09:28 AM, Mike FABIAN wrote:
>> Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 07/24/2017 09:09 AM, Mike FABIAN wrote:

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>> Yes, that sounds like a very reasonable first step!
>> 
>> Is it OK to use that already *now*?
>
> You and Rafal are localedata maintainers, you can assume consensus, therefore
> you can start changing things in whatever way you wish.
>
> Before you change this though I would like to see your list of reasons
> for making the change, what benefits do you see it bringing? Is readability
> the only one?

Readability is the only reason for me at the moment, editing these files
using the code points is very tedious and error prone. 

>> So maybe it is possible to use that right now without having to change
>> anything in the code parsing the locale source files.
>  
> You need to document somewhere what is acceptable and what is not and
> which ASCII characters cannot be used.

Where should that be documented?

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Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com>