[illumos-Developer] HEADS UP: English Locales Available

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 11:03 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
> 
> > With my push of "7 Need locale databases", illumos now has locale data
> > that is functional for the following locales:
> >
> > en_{US,AU,CA,NZ,GB}.{UTF-8,US-ASCII,ISO8859-1,ISO8859-15} and
> > en_IE.UTF-8
> >
> > Note that I've only really tested the UTF-8 locales much.
> >
> > If someone wants to work on importing locale data for other locales,
> > they should contact me and I'll help walk them through it (its not super
> > hard, but its not really trivial either -- good expertise with Makefiles
> > will be helpful).  One serious challenge for other locales will be UTF-8
> > collating data.  I don't have a good source of that that is in a format
> > that is readily available.
> 
> A SchilliX based on b147+ is ready now.
> 
> If you have an Illumos base that would at least in addition support 
> German locales, e.g. de_DE.ISO8859-1 .....
> 
> I could create a SchilliX based on Illumos within a day (asuming that Illumos 
> compiles the same as b147+).
> 
> Jörg


I'll probably do the German and Spanish locales soon.  Killing kcfd is
higher priority though.

	- Garrett