From keld@dkuug.dk Fri Dec 3 19:39:05 1993 Received: by dkuug.dk id AA23558 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for i18n@dkuug.dk); Fri, 3 Dec 1993 18:39:05 +0100 Message-Id: <199312031739.AA23558@dkuug.dk> From: keld@dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 18:39:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: gwm@austin.ibm.com "Re: (XoJIG 1251) new POSIX locales" (Dec 3, 18:22) X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mnemonic-Intro: 29 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.2 4/12/91) To: gwm@austin.ibm.com Subject: Re: (XoJIG 1251) new POSIX locales Cc: i18n@dkuug.dk, xojig@xopen.co.uk gwm@austin.ibm.com writes: > I have looked at the new locales -- mainly en_DK, since other locales > are dependent on this locale. This is what I have found: > > - there are multiple escape_char and comment_char definitions they will be removed > - collating symbols are defined, but not used > - en_DK contains a copy "en_DK" for LC_CTYPE changed. Just in time! I was about to release them in the weekend. > Gary Miller pointed out a couple of errors in the submitted > locales, these have now been corrected. The errors corrected are: > > 1. collating-symbols cannot have weights, these have been > removed for the collating-symbols [a-z]8 > > The weights have been removed, but the symbols are still there and > are not used anywhere. These should be removed for tidiness. They are used for hooks for other locales. This is how en_DK can be used as the master locale.