On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a bit worried that this is being done in gnome actually.
IMO it's something like libxml2, while developed in GNOME, there's absolutely no reason it would not be used outside. > 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. Glibc is not interested in incorporating more locale data because they follow ISO standards. CLDR on the other hand is a superset of POSIX locales and there already exist tools to automatically generate POSIX locales out of CLDR data that can be used to feed Glibc. So the only remaining point here is the "without GNOME" part. We have not decided whether we want to use Glib or not, but we definitely use libxml2, but that's widely used by all sort of applications these days. > I just hate seeing duplication of code/effort > and also a lot of data in this case. We really are busier than duplicating what's done already. The only reusable implementation we know of is in ICU which is practically useless. We may still rip code out of it though. --behdad http://behdad.org/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
