[illumos-Developer] webrev: POSIX style localedef & multibyte encoding support

[Joerg Schilling]

Andrew Gabriel <illumos at cucumber.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Owen Shepherd wrote:
> > On 3 Oct 2010, at 10:08, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> > 
> >> 1) I have added locale data for the English locales that were missing,
> >> and eliminated mklocale and friends.  (I removed US-ASCII without
> >> replacing it.  If you want 7-bit support- use POSIX or C locale.
> >> Otherwise, you really want ISO-8859-1 or -15.) 
> >>
> > 
> > Is the US-ASCII locale likely to be stored in any data files? Should the system perhaps automatically migrate to the POSIX or C locale if it is requested?
>
> A quick grep of my mailbox reveals thousands of:
> Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
> I've no idea what a mail reader might do if that become an unknown 
> locale. I would have though you could never retire any existing locale 
> for this reason, but this isn't an area where I have any expertise.

US-ASCII is an alias for ISO-646 and of course needs to work.



Jörg

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