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Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 23:27:38 +0200
From: Wermut <wermut@...il.com>
To: "musl@...ts.openwall.com" <musl@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Call for locales maintainer & contributors
Hi
I don't like the idea of an entirely new tree of locale data written
from scratch. Glibc has one (with a lot of unmaintained data) and then
there is also the CLDR repository which aims to be the central source
for such data, maintained by unicode. The CLDR data is also used as a
basis for the Microsoft and Apple locale files and is often maintained
by national language experts. What I could offer is an effort to write
some magic code that imports the actual CLDR data and converts the
relevant information to the musl formatted ones. The CLDR data is
freely available from: http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads
Contribution is not completely open, but you normally interested
people get access if they want to. I got mine within a week.
This is only a suggestion open to discussion. What do you guys think about it?
Regards
Kevin
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Olivier Goudron
<olivier.goudron@...il.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I don't know how locale files work but i can help for the french translation
> if needed.
>
> Olivier.
>
>
>
> 2014-07-24 21:32 GMT+02:00 Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>:
>
>> With the upcoming locale support in musl 1.1.4, there's going to be a
>> need to create and maintain locale files for use with musl. This is
>> not a task I want to take on myself; I feel like it will take away too
>> much time and concentration from actual further development of musl
>> and future projects. So I'm looking for someone interested in
>> maintaining this aspect of musl.
>>
>> I believe it can (and probably should) be an entirely out-of-tree
>> project. The intent is for locale files not to be version-specific,
>> although they may need some updates for future versions of musl when
>> new messages are added or some of the English messages change.
>> Otherwise the main task involved is working with users who want to add
>> full translations or just localized time, monetary, collation, etc.
>> data.
>>
>> Since I expect locale support to be somewhat "experimental" in 1.1.4
>> (note: this should not interfere with existing deployments since the
>> LC_* vars are basically ignored when MUSL_LOCPATH is not set), I don't
>> think it's urgent that we get locales created and published right
>> away. It can be more of an ongoing process. Over the next day or two I
>> should be committing the rest of the source-level support needed for
>> LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES to work. LC_COLLATE and LC_MONETARY might or
>> might not make it into this release; I'd rather omit them for now and
>> do them right later than have something hackish in a release that we
>> feel obligated to continute to support. So early efforts should
>> probably just be focused on translating day/month names and related
>> formats and the libc messages.
>>
>> Rich
>
>
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