How should the yesexpr noexpr regexp look?

Keld Jørn Simonsen keld@dkuug.dk
Fri Sep 3 09:21:00 GMT 2004


On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:22:09AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Petter Reinholdtsen]
> > Anyone know what these should contain?  Should the 'Yy' and 'Nn'
> > always be part of the regex, like Pablo Saratxaga suggests in the
> > bug report?
> 
> After considering this for some time now, I believe Pablo is right,
> and that locales should have this if possible.
> 
> At the moment, this affects locales af_ZA, ar_AE, ar_BH, ar_DZ, ar_EG,
> ar_IN, ar_IQ, ar_JO, ar_KW, ar_LB, ar_LY, ar_MA, ar_OM, ar_QA, ar_SA,
> ar_SD, ar_SY, ar_TN, ar_YE, az_AZ, bn_IN, kw_GB, ml_IN, oc_FR, ta_IN,
> te_IN and tr_TR.  We need to get in touch with the locale
> authors/maintainers/contributors, and get them to check if it is
> possible for these locales to include y and n in the yes and no regex.
> 
> This is registered as bug
> <URL:http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=305>.  The
> arabic locales are bug #71.

I also agree that Yy and Nn should be added if possible. For some
locales, in countries with more than one official language, I think it
would be advisable to have all positive and negative responses for these
official languages in each of the language locales.

Best regards
keld



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