Re: ANN: Gnome Locale Support and Development list

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 P draigBrady com wrote:

> python, java, ...
>
> I'm a bit worried that this is being done in gnome actually.
> I can see why, but I would love to see exactly this incorporated
> into glibc, or the existing stuff extracted from glibc and
> merged with the CLDR data into a seperate package
> without gnome dependencies.

In fact that's EXACTLY the plan.  No GNOME dependency, stuff
extracted from glibc and merged with the CLDR data into a
separate package, and pushing it into Python and free Java
implementations.  That's all being discussed in detail on the
list, just look at the archives.

The good news is that Bruno Haible has been working on a separate
locale library for gettext, and now we have merged efforts.  So,
we think we are on the right track, and we appreciate any help
:-).

> I just hate seeing duplication of code/effort
> and also a lot of data in this case.

We do too.  And that's all the reason we started this project.

> Note to see the fields in the glibc locale
> database, one can do:
>
> locale | cut -d= -f1 | xargs locale -kc | less


--behdad
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