On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 08:09:23AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Dan Kogai wrote: > > > On Sunday, April 14, 2002, at 05:38 , Sean M. Burke wrote: > > > At 23:30 2002-04-13 +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > >> (You know what? Since of the files will be named README.xx and > > >> written in pod, the build machinery will automatically create > > >> the pod pages "perljp", "perltw", "perlcn", and "perlkr"...) > > > > > > BTW, you all know those are country codes and not language tags, right? > > > > Right. But sometimes we have to bend the rule to keep legacy systems > > happy. So be it .(cn|jp|kr|tw) instead of .(zh_cn|ja|ko|zh_tw) ;) > > I'm just wondering what legacy system we have to/can make happy > by using (cn|jp|kr|tw) in place of (zh_cn|ja|ko|zh_tw). My North Korean
The 8.3 crowd. zh_ and zh_ look pretty similar. (Before somebody asks why do we care any more about 8.3, I'll answer that that's the way it has been done.) > brethren may not like it much if I use 'kr' instead of 'ko' (ko_kr) :-) In theory we could go for (zhcn|jajp|kokr|zhtw)? But that doesn't look ring any bells to me at all. > BTW, I'm sorry to make things more complicated when we seem to > have enough headache with perldoc's handling of 8bit characters. However, > I can't help thinking it'd be better to make README.xx in UTF-8 and let > Encode convert to legacy encodings depending on the present locale setting > (LC_CTYPE -> nl_codeset()) than the other way around. Am I missing > something here? That would work only if we had a header in *English* explaning how to convert the rest of the file to the legacy encoding-- since, at least as of now, the likelyhoods of a CJK users having (1) a legacy encoding capable software (2) a UTF-8 capable software are not even comparable. Which would kind of make void the whole idea of these CJK-friendly files. I therefore suggest we forget the whole idea. > Jungshik -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
