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Re: [PATCH 02/14] Fix character encoding aliases for OS/2


From: Daiki Ueno
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] Fix character encoding aliases for OS/2
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 18:40:19 +0900
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KO Myung-Hun <address@hidden> writes:

>> For example, it says:
>> 
>>   If the output character set is ommited from the LANG variable, the
>>   default codepage is ALWAYS taken from the operating system (e.g. the
>>   codepage setting from locale.alias is always ignored, so "russian"
>>   stays just for "ru_RU" and not for "ru_RU.ISO-8859-5"); you may want
>>   to set it just if you want to override the active OS/2 codepage.
>
> This patch does not change any behaviors of OS/2 port of gettext.
> Because this patch embeds charset aliases into localcharset.c instead of
> using charset.alias file, and fixes the problem a locale instead of a
> charset if a charset is not specified is returned.

Thanks for checking, looks safe then.  One question is: where did you
take the mapping data?  I found this chart:
http://www.borgendale.com/locale.htm

I'm not sure how authoritative it is, but there are some differences
from yours: ar_AA, bg_BG, lt_LT, lv_LV, and zh_CN.

Regards,
--
Daiki Ueno



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