Re: Patches for OS/2 (2)

[Bruno Haible]

On Sunday 17 November 2002, Andreas Buening wrote:

> I added aliases for xx_XX and xx without the trailing codeset
> ".ISO-xxxx". Is this convenient?

It's certainly convenient if user's don't have to remember codesets
explicitly. But is your codeset choice right? In many countries
such as France and Germany, ISO-8859-15 is now used for a year now,
replacing ISO-8859-1.

>       for l in da_DK de_AT de_CH de_DE en_AU en_CA en_GB en_US es_ES \
>                fi_FI fr_BE fr_CA fr_CH fr_FR is_IS it_CH it_IT la_LN \
>                lt_LN nl_BE nl_NL no_NO pt_PT sv_SE; do
> +       echo "$l ISO-8859-1"
>         echo "$l.ISO_8859-1 ISO-8859-1"
>         echo "$l.DIS_8859-15 ISO-8859-15"
>       done
> +     for l in da de en es fi fr is it nl no pt sv; do
> +       echo "$l ISO-8859-1"
> +     done
>       for l in cs_CZ hr_HR hu_HU la_LN lt_LN pl_PL sl_SI; do

But of course it would be very inconvenient if a user sets LANG=de_DE
and some programs interpret it as ISO-8859-1 and some others as ISO-8859-15.
What matters most here is the display engine. Look in Holger Veit's XFree86
port to know what LANG=de_DE means for OS/2.

Bruno