[illumos-Developer] HEADS UP: English Locales Available

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 12:52 +0200, Antonio Vieiro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to give es_ES.* a go.
> 
> I promise nothing, though: I'll have to recover knowledge about
> Makefiles and the such. If time is not a concern then I can start
> doing it.

Go for it.  I actually know just enough spanish to review your work for
correctness -- in fact I was going to do it myself.

It would be good if you try to cover the other es_* locales too.  There
are a bunch of them.

To start, look at the locale data that FreeBSD ships.  Basically those
databases are what we use in illumos, although there are some scary
Makefile and packaging hacks...  the job is not quite a small one, but
apart from the Makefile voodoo its not deeply technical either.

	- Garrett

> 
> Cheers,
> Antonio
> 
> 2010/8/31 Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org>:
> > 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.
> >
> >        - Garrett
> >
> >
> >
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