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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 22:15:48 +0200
From: u-igbb@...ey.se
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Locale bikeshed time
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:01:50PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> I just meant that language-based locales should match the pattern:
>
> ^[[:lower:]]{2,3}(_[[:upper:]]{2})?([[:punct:]].*)?$
>
> assuming I didn't make any stupid mistakes in writing that regex. And
> non-language-based locales should not match this pattern.
I feel it would be somewhat more robust if we'd have a positive
definition for "the second class" of locale data, just in case we one
day discover that we want to differently handle, say, three classes (?)
A negative defintition gives also very little guidance for the actual
naming and in the worst case may lead to misunderstanding when multiple
parties are involved.
Why not make such a worst case less probable by a somewhat more strict
naming rule?
Possibly also defining "non-language-based" in a positive way?
This is just a thought. I have no actual proposal as I do not have a
good mental picture of which kinds of "non-language-based" definitions
exist or should exist and how they are being used or might/should be used.
Rune
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