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On 2009-11-10T10:57:03+00:00 Martin Pitt wrote:

$ LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8 locale -k -c LC_MESSAGES
LC_MESSAGES
yesexpr="^[KkJjYy].*"

In addition to “k” for “kyllä” and “j” for 
“joo”, “o” for “on” should also be
added for the affirmative response.

‘O’ is for ‘on’, which means ‘[it] is’ (or 
similar in other grammatical person,
as appropriate), and is how one responds to ‘Onko ...’ (‘Is 
it ...’), as an
alternative to ‘joo’ or ‘kyllä’ (‘yes’). 
Colloquially, people say ‘oo’ rather
than ‘on’, so the letter ‘o’ (in addition to 
‘j’ and ‘k’) is appropriate.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glibc/+bug/357031/comments/5

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On 2009-11-10T11:00:51+00:00 Martin Pitt wrote:

Gosh, bugzilla, it's 2009, learn some Unicode.

Let's try this again:

In addition to 'k' for 'kyllä' and 'j' for 'joo', 'o' for 'on' should also be
added for the affirmative response.

'O' is for 'on', which means '[it] is' (or similar in other grammatical person,
as appropriate), and is how one responds to 'Onko ...' ('Is it ...'), as an
alternative to 'joo' or 'kyllä' ('yes'). Colloquially, people say 'oo' rather
than 'on', so the letter 'o' (in addition to 'j' and 'k') is appropriate.


Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glibc/+bug/357031/comments/6

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On 2009-11-17T09:38:33+00:00 Myllynen wrote:

I think this would be an unnecessary addition. Grammatically both answers are
correct for your example question but 'kyllä' sounds perhaps slightly more
formal. It should be also noted that CLDR includes only 'kyllä'/'ei' and no
'joo' or 'on'.

> Colloquially, people say 'oo' rather than 'on'

I haven't yet met such people even I'm a Finn :)

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glibc/+bug/357031/comments/7

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On 2010-04-09T02:49:48+00:00 Drepper-fsp wrote:

Going with comment #2 I won't change anything.

It is also dangerous to accept too many variants.  If any accidental keypress
can be interpreted as a result you better not have cats running across your
keyboards.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glibc/+bug/357031/comments/9


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