[illumos-Developer] HEADS UP: English Locales Available

[Antonio Vieiro]

Thanks for the tip. I will hopefully take a look at spanish locales 
during the weekend.

Kind regards,
Antonio

On 01/09/2010 22:12, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> 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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