RFC: locale-source validation script

[Andreas Schwab]

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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