[illumos-Developer] HEADS UP: English Locales Available

[Garrett D'Amore]

Btw, to follow up:

To get the english UTF-8 locales, you *must* do

pkg install pkg:/locale/en

*after* completing the onu.  Without that, you won't really have a
working set of English locales.  Figuring out how to codify that into
the "install" system is a challenge to be worked out by the distro
folks. :-)

	- Garrett

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 07:13 -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> 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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